AMES – The No. 18 Iowa State football team (10-3, 7-2 Big 12) will face No. 15 Miami (10-2, 6-2) in the Pop-Tarts Bowl in Orlando, Florida after accepting an invitation today from Florida Citrus Sports. It will be Iowa State’s seventh bowl appearance in the last eight seasons and the 19th bowl appearance in school history.
The Cyclones and Hurricanes will meet on Saturday, Dec. 28 at 2:30 p.m. (CT) at Camping World Stadium. ABC will broadcast the game. The teams are meeting for the first time.
Iowa State tied for first place in the Big 12 Conference before falling to Arizona State in Saturday’s Dr Pepper Big 12 Championship game. The Cyclones have won 10 games for the first time in the program’s 133-year history and compiled a 7-2 record in Big 12 Conference play.
This will be ISU’s third appearance in a bowl game at Camping World Stadium.
Iowa State owns a 5-13 all-time record in bowl games. Ninth-year head coach Matt Campbell has the most bowl appearances among ISU skippers as the Cyclones head to their seventh bowl game of his tenure.
Miami will be making a record seventh all-time appearance in the game, and its first since a 2020 Cheez-It Bowl matchup against Oklahoma State. The Hurricanes are 3-3 in their previous six appearances, four of which were played in Orlando. Miami Hurricanes quarterback Cam Ward was selected as a finalist for the 2024 Heisman Trophy and was voted the 2024 Davey O’Brien National Quarterback Award winner, as announced on ESPN’s The Home Depot College Football Awards Thursday evening.
The Hurricanes and Cyclones have never met on the gridiron.
The 2024 Pop-Tarts Bowl will be the 35th edition of the game, which has been held at Camping World Stadium since 2001 after 11 years in South Florida. Last year, Kansas State defeated NC State 28-19 in the first edition of the bowl to feature Pop-Tarts as a title sponsor.