The 90th edition[3] (89th playing) of the annual Sun Bowl game featured Oregon State from the Pac-12 Conference and Notre Dame, an FBS independent.

The game was sponsored by Frosted Flakes breakfast cereal, a brand of WK Kellogg Co, and was officially known as the Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl, referring to the cereal's mascot, Tony the Tiger.

The bowl featured the Oregon State Beavers of the Pac-12 Conference and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, an FBS independent.

This was the first Sun Bowl to feature two teams ranked in the AP poll since the 2008 edition.

This was Notre Dame's second Sun Bowl; the Fighting Irish previously won the 2010 edition.