This year’s Allstate Sugar Bowl will be played on Saturday, December 31 – exactly 50 years after the first New Year’s Eve Sugar Bowl. Kickoff is scheduled for 11 a.m. and the game will be televised by ESPN. It will be the sixth Sugar Bowl to be played on New Year’s Eve. The game date was adjusted due to changes with the NFL schedule, but it will return to January 1 following the 2023 football season. That game will be a College Football Playoff Semifinal.
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Here is everything you need to know about the 2022 Allstate Sugar Bowl between the Alabama Crimson Tide and the Kansas State Wildcats.
K-State Wildcats vs Alabama Crimson Tide Preview
This game will mark the first time that Kansas State has appeared in the Sugar Bowl in its history. K-State is looking for its first New Years’ Six bowl victory since 1997 when Bill Snyder’s Wildcats defeated Syracuse 35-18 in the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl.
The Allstate Sugar Bowl has been set for Saturday, December 31 and will feature the Kansas State Wildcats taking on the Alabama Crimson Tide at noon ET. The game will take place at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans and will air on ESPN.
Kansas State (10-3) are taking part in its 24th bowl game and second under head coach Chris Klieman. They last beat LSU, 42-20, in the Texas Bowl on January 4, 2022. The Wildcats are fresh off toppling TCU in an overtime classic to win the Big 12 Championship.
Alabama (10-2) finished the 2022 season with two losses, a “down” year by the sky high standards in Tuscaloosa, AL. Losses to Tennessee and LSU knocked them out of SEC Championship contention, but the Tide did manage to achieve double-digit wins for a 14th straight season. This will be Alabama’s 75th appearance in a bowl game, a mark that still leads the entire country.
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K-State vs Alabama in 89th Annual Allstate Sugar Bowl
Fresh off a 31-28 overtime victory in the 2022 Dr. Pepper Big 12 Championship, ninth-ranked Kansas State earned a bid into the 89th annual Allstate Sugar Bowl and will face No. 5 Alabama on Saturday, December 31, inside Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana as the College Football Playoff Selection committee announced the New Year’s Six Bowl matchups on Sunday. The game will kick off at 11 a.m., and be shown on ESPN
K-State’s No. 9 ranking in the final College Football Playoff Top 25 of the season is its highest for a final ranking since the CFP began in 2014.
“We are excited to represent the Big 12 Conference in the Allstate Sugar Bowl,” said K-State head coach Chris Klieman, who led the Wildcats to a Big 12 Championship in his fourth year with the program. “I am really proud of our team, especially our seniors, and our staff for their resolve this season. A lot of people doubted this team throughout the year, and they just continued to put their heads down and go to work every day. We look forward to heading to New Orleans for the first time in school history and preparing for a great team in Alabama.”