The Valero Alamo Bowl will keep its current configuration through the 2025 season.
The Big 12 and Pac-12 each announced separate deals to remain with the San Antonio-based bowl game through the next decade. Technically, it’s a six-year extension that kicks begins in 2019.
“The Conference’s long-standing relationship with the Valero Alamo Bowl has produced some unforgettable games,” said Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby in a statement. “The Valero Alamo Bowl and San Antonio have been terrific hosts for our member institutions and their fans, and we are excited to join the Pac-12 to continue our relationship through 2025.”
“The Valero Alamo Bowl has a well-deserved reputation for exciting games played in front of sellout crowds and top TV viewership,” added Pac-12 commish Larry Scott. “Our universities and their fans look forward to their trips to San Antonio and playing top ranked schools from the Big 12 Conference.”
As part of the deal, each team will continue sending its top teams that do not reach a New Year’s Six game.
The announcement came in conjunction with the Alamo Bowl’s annual Pigskin Preview.That feeling when you get a deal with @Big12Conference & @pac12 thru 2025 #alamobowl #confettiparty pic.twitter.com/nuFBl2IOLc
— Valero Alamo Bowl (@valeroalamobowl) August 31, 2016
The Big 12 has sent teams to the Alamo Bowl continuously since 1994, meaning the new agreement takes the bowl and the league into their third decade together. The league is 11-11 to date in the Alamo Bowl, but 8-3 since 2005 and 4-2 since the Pac-12 rejoined the game in 2010. The Pac-12 won each of the first two Alamo Bowls.
TCU won the most recent edition, rallying from a 31-0 halftime deficit to top Oregon 47-41 in triple overtime.
The 2016 game (the second one) will be played Thursday, Dec. 29 (8 p.m. ET, ESPN).