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Chick-fil-A Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl Select ‘Em Contest: Weekly Winner & Upcoming Games October 17, 2022

Chick-fil-A Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl Select ‘Em Contest: Weekly Winner & Upcoming Games

EL PASO, Texas – Congratulations to Matt Brennar for winning week seven (7) of the Chick-fil-A Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl Select ‘Em Contest. Brennar won two (2) Touchdown section tickets to the 2022 Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl Game, which will be played on Dec. 30, 2022 at Noon.

Aguilar automatically advances to “Championship Week.” The weekly winners that advance to “Championship Week,” will once again predict the winners of each college football conference championship game. The contestant with the most correctly chosen conference title games will receive two Preferred Outdoor Club section tickets to the 2022 Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl and one parking pass.

Link to play: http://www.sunbowl.org/contest

Brennar was the only contestant to pick all 10 games correctly.

This week’s games:
Virginia vs. Georgia Tech – Thursday, October 20 at 5:30 p.m. (MT)
No. 14 Syracuse vs. No. 5 Clemson – Saturday, October 22 at 10 a.m. (MT)
Duke vs. Miami – Saturday, October 22 at 10:30 a.m. (MT)
UNLV vs. Notre Dame – Saturday, October 22 at 12:30 p.m. (MT)
Boston College vs. No. 13 Wake Forest – Saturday, October 22 at 1:30 p.m. (MT)
No. 9 UCLA vs. No. 10 Oregon – Saturday, October 22 at 1:30 p.m. (MT)
Arizona State vs. Stanford – Saturday, October 22 at 2 p.m. (MT)
Pittsburgh vs. Louisville – Saturday, October 22 at 6 p.m. (MT)
Colorado vs. Oregon State – Saturday, October 22 at 6 p.m. (MT)
Washington vs. California – Saturday, October 22 at 8:30 p.m. (MT)

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