SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Fight Hunger Bowl will make history with two female officials this year.
The game between BYU and Washington on Dec. 27 in San Francisco will be called by a crew from Conference USA that includes Sarah Thomas as line judge and Maia Chaka as head linesman.
Jamaal Williams outruns his defender against Boise State. Williams and his teammates will be playing in the first ever college football game to be officiated by two female referees when they face Washington in the Fight Hunger Bowl on Friday. (Photo by Maddi Dayton)
NCAA national coordinator of officials Rogers Redding says it is the first time two female officials have worked the same FBS game.
Thomas became the first female official in major college football in 2007 and the first to work a bowl game in 2009 at the Little Caesars Bowl.
A Division II game earlier this year between Miles College and Lane had four female officials. That was billed as the first NCAA game with a majority-female officiating crew.