See Where Area College Football Teams Are Headed For Bowl Season

NASHVILLE, TN — The University of Tennessee Volunteers will have a short trip for the bowl season, Vanderbilt is heading to Louisiana and, once again, Middle Tennessee State will have a tropical holiday.

In a battle of two of college football's most storied programs, the Vols (8-4) will come to Nashville for the Music City Bowl to face the Big Ten's Nebraska Cornhuskers (9-3). The game kicks off at 2:30 p.m., December 30 at Nissan Stadium. It's Tennessee's second trip to the Music City Bowl, losing a 30-27 double-overtime thriller to North Carolina in 2010.

Vanderbilt (6-6) will play in the Independence Bowl in Shreveport, La., squaring off against the ACC's North Carolina State Wolfpack (6-6) at 4 p.m. December 26.

Middle Tennessee State's destination is bound to be warmer than its in-state brethren as the Blue Raiders are bound for the Hawaii Bowl to face the University of Hawaii at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, which kicks off at 7 p.m. Christmas Eve. MTSU finished 8-4; Hawaii was 6-7. This is the second straight year MTSU gets a tropical trip for the holidays: last year, MTSU lost to Western Michigan 35-21 at the Bahamas Bowl.