Jan. 1, 2007 - Today's Forgotten Bowl Game |
In about eight hours, the Fiesta Bowl between Boise State and Oklahoma will kick off at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale - all of about nine miles from my house. I'm working on carving out some serious television time today, the second of my planned two-day hiatus from real estate (and my first days off since Thanksgiving), though work has seemed to interfere a couple of times already.
Today's game has been an afterthought for anyone outside of Boise and Oklahoma, which is an odd feeling for a Fiesta Bowl. As a one-time independent bowl - it had no conference tie-ins from the late 1970s until the invention of the BCS - the Fiesta Bowl was able to put together matchups other bowls only could dream of - #1 Miami vs. #2 Penn State in 1987, #1 Notre Dame vs. #2 West Virginia in 1988 to name two.
And the Fiesta was the first bowl to play host to the old Bowl Alliance championship game (Nebraska vs. Florida) and the first BCS title game (Tennessee vs. Florida State.) I can count one on hand the number of times the Fiesta had been thoroughly uncared about - 1984, when tickets were available until kickoff for UCLA vs. Miami and 1991, when boycotts from a number of colleges over Arizona's decision at the time not to pass an MLK holiday left us with Alabama vs. Louisville.
This year, the focus has been less on Oklahoma and Boise State than next Monday's game, also at University of Phoenix Stadium - the BCS Championship Game between #1 Ohio State and #2 Florida. But no matter ... though local and national press attention may be elsewhere, the fans have made their presence known, arriving in droves over the past week from the cold of Idaho.
As long as you don't need a seat at the Yardhouse or Gordon Biersch, it's a wonderful thing.
Who Will Win Today's Fiesta Bowl
(c) Jonathan Dalton, 2006 / Jonathan Dalton's Arizona Homes
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