Location: Tempe, Arizona
Date: 1 January 2007, 8:30 PM EST
Teams: Boise State vs. Oklahoma
Televised on: FOX

Last season’s Big 12 champion did not play in the Fiesta Bowl, as is customary, because they had other plans. Texas won the conference title with a 70-3 rout of Colorado and advanced to the national title game, where Vince Young’s heroics brought glory to the Longhorns.

The 2007 edition of the Fiesta Bowl could see Texas back against a BCS at-large foe, a year after Independent Notre Dame and Ohio State of the Big Ten battled it out. You can bet Ohio State doesn’t plan to come back here either, as they have designs on the BCS title game themselves.

The 2006 Fiesta Bowl pitted two top quarterbacks and two top coaches against each other. And Ohio State got the best of both matchups in winning their third Fiesta Bowl in four seasons with a 34-20 thumping of the Irish.

Troy Smith outplayed Brady Quinn on the field. Jim Tressel outwitted Charlie Weis on the sidelines. And that was enough to ensure Notre Dame lost its eighth straight bowl game and ensured Buckeye backers pocketed cash from a -4.5 line at Bodog.com

The Fiesta Bowl is a post-season college football game that has been played annually in Tempe, Arizona since 1971. In 1999, the Fiesta Bowl became part of the Bowl Championship Series (BCS).

The 2006 Fiesta Bowl was played on 2 January 2006 at the 73,379-seat Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe. Notre Dame was matched against Ohio State of the NCAA's Big Ten Conference, which produced a 34-20 win for the Buckeyes.

Both the Fighting Irish and Buckeyes entered the game with 9-2 records and both teams also had one prior national championship win at the Fiesta Bowl: Notre Dame in 1989, and Ohio State in a double-overtime nail-biter in 2003.

Fiesta Bowl Prior Results

Date	Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Score
2 Jan. 2006	Ohio State	34	Notre Dame	20
1 Jan. 2005	Utah	35	Pittsburgh	7
2 Jan. 2004	Ohio State	35	Kansas State	28
3 Jan. 2003	Ohio State	31	Miami	24
1 Jan. 2002	Oregon	38	Colorado	16
1 Jan. 2001	Oregon State	41	Notre Dame	9
2 Jan. 2000	Nebraska	31	Tennessee	21
4 Jan. 1999	Tennessee	23	Florida State	16
31 Dec. 1997	Kansas State	35	Syracuse	18
1 Jan. 1997	Penn State	38	Texas	15
2 Jan. 1996	Nebraska	62	Florida	24
2 Jan. 1995	Colorado	41	Notre Dame	24
1 Jan. 1994	Arizona	29	Miami	0
1 Jan. 1993	Syracuse	26	Colorado	22
1 Jan. 1992	Penn State	42	Tennessee	17
1 Jan. 1991	Louisville	24	Alabama	7
1 Jan. 1990	Florida State	41	Nebraska	17
2 Jan. 1989	Notre Dame	34	West Virginia	21
1 Jan. 1988	Florida State	31	Nebraska	28
2 Jan. 1987	Penn State	14	Miami	10
1 Jan. 1986	Michigan	27	Nebraska	23
1 Jan. 1985	UCLA	39	Miami	37
2 Jan. 1984	Ohio State	28	Pittsburgh	23
1 Jan. 1983	Arizona State	32	Oklahoma	21
1 Jan. 1982	Penn State	26	Southern California	10
26 Dec. 1980	Penn State	31	Ohio State	19
25 Dec. 1979	Pittsburgh	16	Arizona	10
25 Dec. 1978	Arkansas	10	UCLA	10
25 Dec. 1977	Penn State	42	Arizona State	30
25 Dec. 1976	Oklahoma	41	Wyoming	7
26 Dec. 1975	Arizona State	17	Nebraska	14
28 Dec. 1974	Oklahoma State	16	BYU	6
21 Dec. 1973	Arizona State	28	Pittsburgh	7
23 Dec. 1972	Arizona State	49	Missouri	35
27 Dec. 1971	Arizona State	45	Florida State	38

The Fiesta Bowl was made part of the Bowl Championship Series in 1999. As one of four BCS bowls, the Fiesta Bowl had shared in the rotation of the National Championship Game. Starting with the 2006-2007 season, a new national title game will feature the top two BCS-ranked schools in a battle for national supremacy.

In recognition of its sponsor, the official name of the game is the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl.

The Fiesta Bowl has been owned by Ohio State the past few seasons. The Big Ten school won the 2006 edition with a 34-20 victory over Notre Dame and won back-to-back trophies in 2003 and 2004.

In 2004, they handled Kansas State out of the Big 12 to the tune of 35-28. A year earlier, they ground out a 31-24 victory over Miami.

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