Cal Football 2026 Opponents Featured in January 2 Bowls: Live Chat
How will Wake Forest and SMU look going into next season?
Trust & Will Holiday Bowl@holidaybowl
Feels like with all the craziness today, people are forgetting that we let the fans vote on our end zone design ☃️🌊
12:12 AM · Dec 8, 2025
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This is your final set of low-stakes bowl games for the 2025-26 college football season. We’ll be closing out the holiday festivities with two of Cal’s opponents for next year.
Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl: Rice vs. Texas State
Amon G. Carter Stadium — Fort Worth, TX
10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET, ESPN
AutoZone Liberty Bowl: Navy vs. Cincinnati
Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium — Memphis, TN
1:30 pm PT / 4:30 pm ET, ESPN
Duke’s Mayo Bowl: Wake Forest vs. Mississippi State
Bank of America Stadium — Charlotte, NC
5:00 pm PT / 8:00 pm ET, ESPN
Trust & Will Holiday Bowl: #17 Arizona vs. SMU
Snapdragon Stadium — San Diego, CA
5:00 pm PT / 8:00 pm ET, FOX
5-7 v 6-6 in the first game. That’s what it’s come to.
I fired the SMU-AZ game up at 5. Put it on mute and mostly had my back to it doing other tasks. I finally turn around much later and it's....24-0 SMU....thats good but not a "good" game. Switched to Wake Forest and MSU.....Wake up 23-9....that's good too.