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The 1971 Fiesta Bowl was the inaugural edition of the college football bowl game, played at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona, on Monday, December 27.Part of the 1971–72 bowl game season, it featured the eighth-ranked Arizona State Sun Devils of the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) and the independent Florida State Seminoles.
The Fiesta Bowl is an annual American college football bowl game played annually in the Phoenix metropolitan area since 1971.. From its beginning until 2006, the game was hosted at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona.
The 1971–72 NCAA football bowl games were a series of post-season games played in December 1971 and January 1972 to end the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. A total of 11 team-competitive games were played. The post-season began with the Sun Bowl on December 18, 1971, and concluded on January 1, 1972, with the Orange Bowl.
The stadium has hosted two annual college football bowl games: the Fiesta Bowl from 1971 to 2006, and the Cactus Bowl from 2006 to 2015. The stadium was the home of the Phoenix/Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL) from 1988 through the 2005 season, when the Cardinals moved into their own stadium in Glendale.
First bowl game for HBCUs, hosted by Prairie View A&M. Pretzel Bowl 1951 Reading, Pennsylvania: West Chester Golden Rams vs. Albright Rams: Pythian Bowl: 1949–1951 Salisbury, North Carolina: First bowl game that was played in North Carolina. Known in 1952 as the Lions Bowl. Refrigerator Bowl: 1948–1956 Evansville, Indiana: Rice Bowl 1957 ...
In that 2007 Fiesta Bowl game, Boise State pulled off one of the biggest upsets in college football history over No. 7 Oklahoma in overtime. The winning play came on a well-designed 2-point ...
Penn State is a win away from the national title game. The No. 6 Nittany Lions jumped out to a 14-0 lead and held on for a 31-14 win over No. 3 Boise State in the Fiesta Bowl.PSU advances to the ...
The 1971 Arizona State Sun Devils football team represented Arizona State University in the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. The offense scored 462 points while the defense allowed 201 points. Led by head coach Frank Kush, the Sun Devils won the Fiesta Bowl.