One day after winning the 2020 American Athletic Conference Championship, Cincinnati has been chosen by the College Football Playoff Selection Committee to play in the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl.

The Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl will take place Jan. 1, 2021, at noon ET and will be televised on ESPN.

Cincinnati capped a 9-0 regular season with its 27-24 win against Tulsa in Saturday’s American Athletic Conference Championship. The Bearcats enter the bowl game as one of five unbeaten teams nationally and one of only three unbeaten teams with at least nine victories. Cincinnati is No. 8 in the final College Football Playoff rankings.

“Congratulations to Luke Fickell and Cincinnati on their selection to the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl,” said American Athletic Conference Commissioner Mike Aresco. “Although they will represent the conference well in the New Year’s Six, as our teams have always done, I am disappointed that they were denied the opportunity to compete for the CFP National Championship.

“Cincinnati is the third team from our conference in four years to go unbeaten in the regular season, and the fact that none of these elite teams have been chosen for the playoff, or as this year would seem to indicate, seriously considered, is indicative of a flaw in a system that was constructed to be more inclusive than its predecessors.”

The Bearcats’ appearance in the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl marks The American’s sixth New Year’s bowl bid since the formation of the conference in 2013. Cincinnati will be playing in a New Year’s Six bowl for the first time as a member of The American as the Bearcats make their 19th bowl appearance overall.

Cincinnati and Georgia have met twice on the gridiron, most recently in 1976. The Bulldogs have taken both previous matchups.

The American Athletic Conference champion has gone 2-0 in the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl. Houston took a 38-24 win against Florida State in the 2015 season, while UCF was a 34-27 winner against Auburn in to cap a 13-0 season in 2017.