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Fiesta Bowl ( January 5, 2009) - University of Phoenix Stadium Glendale, AZ 8 PM Fox Big 12 Champions or BCS At-Large vs. BCS At-Large.
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Since the
begining of the Fiesta Bowl on December 27, 1971, and featured the Arizona State Sun Devils Vs Florida State Seminoles. The Devils
beat the Seminoles 45-38 and a Fiesta Bowl took its place among the college football Bowl Championship Series. By 1975,
the game was able to attract Big Eight co-champion Nebraska to play undefeated Arizona State in a matchup of top five teams.
In 1977, the game was again able to attract a top five opponent in Penn State. The Fiesta Bowl is now one of four bowl games
that rotate to hold the Bowl Championship game each year. The rotation includes the Orange Bowl, Sugar Bowl and Rose Bowl.
The "Tostitos Fiesta Bowl" has been played at Sun Devil Stadium, home arena of Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona.
However, the 35th staging of this post-season football classic will be the last at that location, on January 2007, the next
time the Fiesta Bowl will host the BCS title game, the game will be played at Cardinals Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.
Beginning in 2007, the year’s top team in all of NCAA Division I football will be decided in a separate BCS Championship. In yet another
first, the new stadium will be the site of three bowl games: the Insight Bowl, the Fiesta Bowl, and on January 8, 2007, the national championship.
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Over the years, the Fiesta Bowl have given fans a chance to see college players, who were destined to have a carrear in the NFL. For example,
Tony Dorsett, Marcus Allen, Vinny Testaverde just to name a few. Penn State’s coach Joe Paterno achieved six wins at the Fiesta Bowl without a loss.
Nebraska’s Coach "Tom Osborne" had to endure four losses before his Fiesta Bowl victory, Untill the sweet victory in the 1996 national championship.
Fiesta Bowl |
| University of Phoenix Stadium Glendale |
| January 5, 2009 |
| Big 12 Champions or BCS At-Large vs. BCS At-Large |
| Bowl Matchup: |
Last Years Fiesta Bowl Champions
Led by Heisman Trophy finalist, quarterback Alex Smith and a stingy defense, Utah blew out the Pittsburgh Panthers, 35-7 to win
the 2005 Tostitos Fiesta Bowl. Smith completed 29 of 37 passes, four of them for touchdowns, for 328 yards. The multidimensional
QB also rushed for 65 yards. Smith’s 75 percent completion percentage set a Fiesta Bowl record.
Wide receiver Paris Warren hauled in 15 passes, breaking the Fiesta Bowl record set by Kellen Winslow of Miami in the 2003 BCS
National Championship Game played at Sun Devil Stadium. Warren finished with 198 yards receiving, the third most in Fiesta Bowl history.
Meanwhile, the Utah defense set a Fiesta Bowl record by sacking Panther quarterback Tyler Palko three times and limited the Panthers
to only 54 yards on the ground. With the Fiesta Bowl triumph, the first by a non-BCS Conference team, Utah capped off a perfect 12-0
season and sent Meyer packing to Florida in style. In only two seasons, Meyer took the Fighting Utes from cellar dwellers to Fiesta Bowl
Champions, before departing to take over as head coach of the Florida Gators, who just might be apart of what’s sure to be an exciting
2006 Fiesta Bowl.
Fiesta Bowl Past 10 years of bowl chapionships & winners
| Date Played |
Winning Team |
Losing Team |
| January 1, 1997 |
Penn State |
38 |
Texas |
15 |
| December 31, 1997 |
Kansas State |
35 |
Syracuse |
18 |
| January 4, 1999* |
Tennessee |
23 |
Florida State |
16 |
| January 2, 2000 |
Nebraska |
31 |
Tennessee |
21 |
| January 1, 2001 |
Oregon State |
41 |
Notre Dame |
9 |
| January 1, 2002 |
Oregon |
38 |
Colorado |
16 |
| January 3, 2003* |
Ohio State |
31 |
Miami |
24 |
| January 2, 2004 |
Ohio State |
35 |
Kansas State |
28 |
| January 2, 2005 |
Utah |
35 |
Pittsburgh |
7 |
| January 2, 2006 |
Ohio State |
34 |
Notre Dame |
20 |
| January 1, 2007 |
Boise State (After Overtime) |
43 |
Oklahoma |
42 |
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