Pinstripe Bowl Canceled For 2020

November 27, 2020 by Staff

Due to the recent increase in coronavirus cases, which has led to the imposition of various travel restrictions and the cancellation of many college football games, including those in the Big Ten and ACC Conferences, we have made the decision out of an abundance of caution and in conjunction with both conferences to cancel the 2020 New Era Pinstripe Bowl. The priority of the Yankees, New Era Pinstripe Bowl, Big Ten and ACC is the safety of players, coaches and staff, and this decision is consistent with that approach. We look forward to hosting the New Era Pinstripe Bowl with an enthusiastic crowd filling Yankee Stadium in 2021.

See: Bowl Schedule

The Pinstripe Bowl becomes the seventh major postseason bowl cancellation of 2020. It joins the the Bahamas Bowl, the Fenway Bowl, the Hawai’i Bowl, the Holiday Bowl, the Quick Lane Bowl, and the Redbox Bowl.

The Celebration Bowl has also been canceled. First played in the 2015 season, the game pairs the champions of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) and the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) - the two prominent conferences of historically black colleges and universities

The Montgomery Bowl will be played as substitute of the Fenway Bowl for this season only, while the New Mexico Bowl was moved to Frisco, Texas in order to still be played.

Meanwhile, the Las Vegas Bowl (as of November 27) has still not set a date and time for 2020.