BOCA RATON, Fla. – The Florida Atlantic University football team (5-3, 4-2 Conference USA) has accepted an invitation to play in the inaugural Montgomery Bowl, scheduled for Wednesday, Dec. 23 in Montgomery, Alabama. The game is scheduled to kick off at 7 p.m. and will air on either ESPN.
The Owls will face the Memphis Tigers (7-3, 5-3 American Athletic Conference), a team that FAU has met just once, also in a bowl game.
FAU will enter the game with a stingy defense, led by senior cornerback and Montgomery native Zyon Gilbert. Gilbert has been an instrumental leader for a team that made the transition to first year head coach Willie Taggart nearly a year ago. A total of six Owls originally hail from the state of Alabama.
BOWL NOTES
- This marks the program’s fifth bowl since 2007, the first season FAU was eligible to play in a bowl game, and third bowl game in four years
- Previous Bowl appearances: 2007 New Orleans Bowl (FAU 44, Memphis 27), 2008 Motor City Bowl (FAU 24, Central Michigan 21), 2017 Boca Raton Bowl (FAU 50, Akron 3), 2019 Boca Raton (FAU 52, SMU 28)
