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Holiday Bowl between UCLA-NC State canceled due to COVID-19

By Victor Barbosa | Last updated 12/28/21

Another college football bowl game has been altered by the winter Omicron surge as a part of the COVID-19 pandemic.

SOURCES: Tonight’s Holiday Bowl between UCLA & NC State is getting canceled. The Bruins D-Line room has been decimated by Covid issues.
— Bruce Feldman (@BruceFeldmanCFB) December 28, 2021

The UCLA football team is unable to participate in tonight’s San Diego County Credit Union Holiday Bowl due to COVID-19 protocols within the Bruins’ program. pic.twitter.com/rHXEmGv9gl
— UCLA Football (@UCLAFootball) December 28, 2021

Among the host of other bowl games to be canceled thus far are the EasyPost Hawai'i Bowl, the Military Bowl, the Fenway Bowl and the Arizona Bowl.

The Bruins went 8-4 this year under fourth-year head coach Chip Kelly. The Holiday Bowl would've been Kelly's first bowl game appearance since he made four consecutive appearances as the lead man for Oregon from 2009 through 2012.

The Wolfpack finished the season 9-3 and at No. 18 in the Associated Press college football rankings. The contest against UCLA would've been the program's seventh bowl game appearance in the last eight years and 14th in the last 17 years.

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