There isn't much precedent for Friday's 2021 Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl, either in the 86-year history of the event or in the longer history of college football.
Washington State and Central Michigan learned they would be playing each other in a postseason game four days before their New Year's Eve kickoff, when Washington State was already in El Paso and Central Michigan was 315 miles away in Tuscon, Arizona for an Arizona Bowl that had just gotten cancelled.
In an era of meticulous preparation and scouting, this impromptu matchup, necessitated when Miami pulled out shortly after Washington State's El Paso arrival on Sunday, belongs in a different era.