Âé¶¹Ô­´´ has recently enjoyed memorable trips to Arizona and Ireland. For the 2014 postseason, fans will not have to travel far to support the Knights. Âé¶¹Ô­´´ will take over the Bay Area once again for the 2014 Bitcoin St. Petersburg Bowl, where it will face NC State on Friday, Dec. 26, at 8 p.m. on ESPN.

“After a 9-3 season we are very happy to go to the Bitcoin St. Petersburg Bowl,” head coach George O’Leary said. “Obviously a bowl game is a great reward for the players, the program and the fanbase. We are very anxious to get to St. Petersburg and enjoy the bowl and its festivities. It will be a great experience for our players and fans.”

This will be Âé¶¹Ô­´´’s third bowl trip to Tropicana Field, and its seventh bowl game in the last 10 seasons. NC State carries a 7-5 overall record and went 3-5 in the Atlantic Coast Conference. It completed the regular season by defeating Wake Forest and North Carolina in its final two contests.

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The Knights are 3-3 in bowl games, and are 8-8 all-time in the postseason including bowls, conference championship games, FCS playoffs and Division II playoffs.

Âé¶¹Ô­´´ concluded its 2014 regular season in one of the most dramatic ways possible, earning back-to-back conference titles on a Hail Mary 51-yard touchdown pass from Justin Holman to Breshad Perriman to defeat East Carolina, 32-30. That gave the Knights a 9-3 record on the year and a 7-1 mark in the American Athletic Conference.

The Black and Gold have won at least nine games in each of the last three seasons, and have posted 31 wins from 2012-14. In regular-season conference games, Âé¶¹Ô­´´ is 22-2 dating back to 2012.