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Community excitement is building as College of the Redwoods gets set to host a bowl game for the first time in 27 years on Saturday.

The Corsairs will play Monterey Peninsula in the Grizzly Bowl at the Redwood Bowl, with kickoff set for 1 p.m.

Tickets for the big game will go on sale on Wednesday and can be purchased at the CR Athletics Office from 1 to 5 p.m. through Friday.

Tickets can also be purchased at the Redwood Bowl on game day, starting at 11:30 a.m.

Children under 12 will be admitted free, while tickets for students with a student ID and seniors 60 and over are $5 and general admission is $10.

This will be the first bowl appearance for CR football since the 2009 season and the first to be hosted by CR since the 1995 Redwood Bowl. 

The program has appeared in 10 bowl games overall since moving to the bowl structure in 1980, but the Corsairs have not won one since 1993, when current head coach Jason White was a first-year assistant with the program.

To qualify for a bowl game, teams need to have a 6-4 record or better.

The Corsairs, who were playing this season for the first time since 2019, finished 7-3, including a 4-1 mark in the American Pacific 7 Conference.

Despite the recent bowl drought, CR football has enjoyed plenty of success over the years.

Between 1967 and 1980, the Corsairs won eight conference championships (1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974 and 1976) and were State Champions in 1968, 1970, 1972 and NorCal State Champions in 1976.

Saturday’s game will also be streamed live.