Here are the college bowl games canceled due to the surge in COVID-19 cases :

Boston College quarterback Phil Jurkovec prepares to hand the ball off during a game earlier this season. The team had to withdraw from the Military Bowl because of the pandemic.

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Boston College quarterback Phil Jurkovec prepares to hand the ball off during a game earlier this season. The team had to withdraw from the Military Bowl because of the pandemic.

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For the second year in a row, college bowl games are being canceled as coronavirus case counts climb. Rosters are also depleted by injuries and players either opting out of games or transferring to other schools.

On Sunday, three more schools announced that they wouldn’t participate in bowl games.

The University of Virginia Cavaliers dropped out of Wednesday’s Wasabi Fenway Bowl “due to the number of COVID cases impacting its roster, preventing safe participation,” the Fenway Bowl said in a statement announcing the game’s cancellation.

The Virginia team was supposed to head to Boston on Christmas Day to play the Southern Methodist University Mustangs. But as they prepared for that date, some U.Va. players started showing symptoms consistent with COVID-19, U.Va. said in a statement. After those players tested positive for the virus, the rest of the team was tested on Christmas morning — and more players were found to have the virus.

“We are extremely disappointed the team will not be able to participate in the inaugural Fenway Bowl,” Virginia Athletics Director Carla Williams said in a statement. The bowl would have been the last chance for outgoing coach Bronco Mendenhall to coach the team.

Also Sunday, Military Bowl organizers said the bowl game would be canceled, due to a spate of positive coronavirus cases at Boston College, where more than 40 players were unavailable to play.

“This is not the way we wanted to see this season come to an end,” said Boston College head football coach Jeff Haley. “We just do not have enough players to safely play a game.”

The Military Bowl, which would have pitted the Boston College Eagles against the East Carolina University Pirates, was scheduled to kick off Monday in Annapolis, after a parade and festival. All of the events are now canceled.

Late Sunday, the University of Miami announced that it wouldn’t be able to field a team against Washington State in Friday’s Sun Bowl in El Paso, Texas.

“We are extremely disappointed that our football team will be unable to participate in the 2021 Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl,” Deputy Director of Athletics and Chief Operating Officer Jennifer Strawley said in a statement. “But due to the number of COVID-19 cases impacting our…