One year ago in #theReturn, UAB surprised the college football world by winning eight games. It was a magical season by all accounts for the UAB and Birmingham family. Unfortunately, the Blazers didn’t get their storybook ending as UAB suffered a blowout loss in the Bahamas Bowl against Ohio.
One year later, with their first ever Conference USA Championship secured, the UAB Blazers made sure they were not going to suffer the same fate. In the fifth annual Cheribundi Tart Cherry Boca Raton Bowl, UAB got a shot at redemption against another MAC school, Northern Illinois, and capitalized with a resounding 37-13 win for their first bowl victory in school history.