The San Diego Holiday Bowl has partnered with the Padres to play this year's Holiday Bowl at Petco Park, in a matchup of teams from the ACC and Pac-12.
Padres CEO Erik Greupner told the San Diego Union-Tribune "We’re really excited to partner with the Holiday Bowl to keep the bowl game in San Diego and take it to the next level from an experiential perspective. One of our goals as an organization is for Petco Park to be the singular iconic venue in San Diego. Now that the stadium in Mission Valley has been razed and is being rebuilt in a much smaller size for SDSU, we feel the obligation to maintain and improve the ballpark so that it can be what everybody voted for in 1998 with Prop C, which was more than a ballpark.”
Holiday Bowl Executive Director Mark Neville told the UT: "We’re not settling coming to Petco Park at all — this is going to take us to the next level. The excitement downtown with the fans coming, staying in the hotels around here, the weeklong festivities we’re going to be putting on. I don’t think I’m going out on a limb by saying that the bowl experience here now at Petco Park and downtown San Diego is going to be the very best in the country. It lends itself so well to having a premier fan experience.”
Tom Larimer of Larimer Design
