PRESENTED BY The origin of the Fiesta Bowl comes from the Western Athletic Conference. Upset that its champions in 1968 and '69 were not invited to any bowl and 1970 champion Arizona State played in the Peach Bowl, conference supporters created the Fiesta Bowl, which initally guaranteed an invite for its champion. The bowl's tie-in with the WAC ended in 1978, when Arizona and Arizona State moved to the then-Pac-10 conference. • In 1987, Miami and Penn State, the nation's top two teams battled for the national championship in the Fiesta Bowl. Penn State won 14-10 and the game drew the largest television rating in college football history at that time. • In 1991, several schools turned down invitations to the Fiesta Bowl because the state of Arizona did not recognize the Martin Luther King holiday. • In 1999, the Fiesta Bowl played host to the first BCS national championship game. Tennessee defeated Florida State 23-16. • The 2007 Fiesta Bowl has been called one of the greatest college football games ever played. Oklahoma scored 25 unanswered points to take the lead for the first time with little more than a minute remaining in the game. A total of 37 points were scored between 1:26 left in regulation and the end of the game. Boise State,down 35-28 with 1:02 left, pulled off the "hook and lateral" play to tie the game and send it into overtime. The overtime culminated with a variation of the "Statue of Liberty" play on a gutsy 2-point conversion that sealed the win for Boise State. • At the end of the 2007 game, Boise State running back Ian Johnson proposed to his girlfriend, head cheerleader Chrissy Popadics, on live television. She accepted. FIESTA BOWL RESULTS YEAR WINNER SCORE LOSER SCORE 1971 Arizona State 45 Florida State 38 1972 Arizona State 49 Missouri 35 1973 Arizona State 28 Pittsburgh 7 1974 Oklahoma State 16 BYU 6 1975 Arizona State 17 Nebraska 14 1976 Oklahoma 41 Wyoming 7 1977 Penn State 42 Arizona State 30 1978 Arkansas 10 UCLA 10 1979 Pittsburgh 16 Arizona 10 1980 Penn State 31 Ohio State 19 1982 Penn State 26 Southern California 10 1983 Arizona State 32 Oklahoma 21 1984 Ohio State 28 Pittsburgh 23 1985 UCLA 39 Miami 37 1986 Michigan 27 Nebraska 23 1987 Penn State 14 Miami 10 1988 Florida State 31 Nebraska 28 1989 Notre Dame 34 West Virginia 21 1990 Florida State 41 Nebraska 17 1991 Louisville 34 Alabama 7 1992 Penn State 42 Tennessee 17 1993 Syracuse 26 Colorado 22 1994 Arizona 29 Miami 0 1995 Colorado 41 Notre Dame 24 1996 Nebraska 62 Florida 24 1997 Penn State 38 Texas 15 1997 Kansas State 35 Syracuse 18 1999 Tennessee 23 Florida State 16 2000 Nebraska 31 Tennessee 21 2001 Oregon State 41 Notre Dame 9 2002 Oregon 38 Colorado 16 2003* Ohio State 31 Miami 24 (2 OT) 2004 Ohio State 35 Kansas State 28 2005 Utah 35 Pittsburgh 7 2006 Ohio State 34 Notre Dame 20 2007 Boise State 43 Oklahoma 42 (OT) 2008 West Virginia 48 Oklahoma 28 2009 Texas 24 Ohio State 21 2010 Boise State 17 TCU 10 2011 Oklahoma 48 Connecticut 20 2012 Oklahoma State 41 Stanford 38 (OT) 2013 Oregon 35 Kansas State 17 2014 UCF 52 Baylor 42 2014 Boise State 38 Arizona 30 2016 Ohio State 44 Notre Dame 28 2016 Clemson 31 Ohio State 0 2017 Penn State 35 Washington 28 2019* LSU 40 UCF 32 Two games played in 1997, 2014, and 2016 (January and December); no game played in 1998 or 2015. *2018 season played on Jan. 1, 2019
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