N.C. State will complete a recent bowl circle while North Carolina will go back to what once was a familiar postseason spot.
The Wolfpack (6-6) will face Vanderbilt (6-6) in the Independence Bowl in Shreveport, La. on Dec. 26. UNC (8-4) will go to the Sun Bowl in El Paso, Texas on Dec. 30 to play Stanford (9-3).
It’s the third time in four bowl games N.C. State will be matched up with an SEC team. It lost to Mississippi State last year, 51-28, in the Belk Bowl in Charlotte.
N.C. State and Vanderbilt met in the 2012 Music City Bowl in Nashville, Tenn.