With that performance, Young became only the fourth two-time MVP in the history of the Rose Bowl, and the first to come from a school outside of the Pac and the Big Ten, after having put up a similarly brilliant performance against Michigan in the Rose Bowl Game. The roots of the game stem back to , when the city of Miami decided to host its own New Year's Day showcase like that put on by the Tournament of Roses.
The idea began as the "Fiesta of the American Tropics" and was revived in as the "Palm Festival," with an adjoining game geared toward boosting the city's ailing economy amidst the Great Depression. The game officially became the Orange Bowl in when it was first played at Miami Field, later giving way to the Orange Bowl and now what is known as Sun Life Stadium.
The Orange Bowl helped to usher college football into the television age when, in , it became the first bowl game ever broadcast in prime time. That edition featured a stellar matchup between Texas and Alabama, with the Longhorns coming out on top, From then on, the game was held continuously at its namesake stadium until , when it moved to what was then known as Dolphins Stadium in Miami Gardens now Sun Life Stadium.
The game returned to the Orange Bowl one last unintentional hurrah in , when Dolphins Stadium played host to an AFC Wild Card Game, thereby forcing the bowl game to move back to its long-time location for a day. The old Orange Bowl, known as Burdine Stadium from until , was demolished in to make way for the new home of the soon-to-be-renamed Florida Marlins, set to open in As for the city of Miami, it is easily one of the most festive in the entire country, known for exciting nightlife so prevalent on world-famous South Beach.
Of the four BCS bowl games, the Orange Bowl has seen the second-most national champions of all with Oklahoma still stands as both the most frequent participant 18 and victor 12 in the game, with 10 of those wins boosting the Sooners to national championships, official or otherwise.
Fittingly enough, Nebraska, Oklahoma's long-time foe dating back to the days of the Big Eight, has the second-most appearances in the Orange Bowl with 17 eight victories and four national titles won. Picking one game from among the greatest played in the Orange Bowl is a difficult task, though the nod ultimately goes to the edition, in which Miami defeated Nebraska, The Cornhuskers rode into that game as the clear favorites, having averaged 52 points per game during the regular season while looking invincible on the gridiron.
However, with the backing of 70, fans and the spectacular passing of freshman quarterback Bernie Kosar, the Hurricanes stormed out to a big lead and held on for dear life in the end to deliver the first of five national titles in school history. Honorable mention goes to the Orange Bowl Classic, in which Notre Dame downed heavily favored Alabama, , in the last game ever coached by the legendary Ara Parseghian.
The best and most dramatic performance in the history of the Orange Bowl is undeniably that put on by Nebraska's Tommie Frazier in The Cornhuskers quarterback spent much of the season struggling with blood clots in his right leg but was able to return in time for the Orange Bowl against Miami to defend the MVP honors he earned in a losing effort the year before. After not playing in a live game for the better part of three months, Frazier spent most of the game on the bench after throwing an ill-advised pass that resulted in an interception on Big Red's first drive.
With seven minutes to go and the Huskers down , coach Tom Osbourne put Frazier back in the game and watched as his quarterback led two touchdown drives against the vaunted Hurricanes defense to give Nebraska a victory and its first national championship since The Sugar Bowl has seen perhaps the most controversy of any major bowl game, from the debate in over whether Bobby Grier should be allowed to play with the Pittsburgh Panthers against the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets given Georgia governor Marvin Griffith's opposition to integration, to the Pentagon's decision in to disallow Army from participating in what would've been its first-ever bowl game due to the Vietnam War.
It was from this location that the game derived its name, as Tulane's campus had previously been the sugar plantation of Paul Foucher, whose father-in-law, Etienne de Bore, first discovered how to granulate sugar from cane syrup. The game moved to the Louisiana Superdome in and has been held there every year since except for , when the tragedy and destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina forced the organizers to move the game to the Georgia Dome in Atlanta.
Tulane Stadium, which was officially closed in and was fully demolished by , had also hosted three Super Bowls and the NFL's New Orleans Saints from until The city of New Orleans is known and celebrated around the world for its vibrant Creole culture, its rich history of art and music and of course, the party that invades Bourbon Street and the French Quarter during Mardi Gras.
The Sugar Bowl has seen one fewer national champion than the Orange Bowl, with a total of 28 to date. Alabama and LSU are currently tied for the most appearances all-time with 13 apiece, though the Crimson Tide hold the edge in wins eight to six and national championships earned in the contest five to three. Interestingly enough, the greatest Sugar Bowl game to date featured a team from the SEC on the losing side of the ledger. That game, the Sugar Bowl, still stands as one of the greatest college football games of all time.
In that game, second-ranked Penn State edged top-ranked Georgia, , on the way to the national championship in what was then a de facto title game in a then-rare postseason meeting between the two top-ranked teams in college football. The Nittany Lions dominated the first half of the game before the Bulldogs narrowed the margin to in the third quarter. With his team's lead now tenuous, quarterback Todd Blackledge led Penn State to the end zone in the opening minutes of the fourth quarter to stretch the lead back to 10 points.
Georgia, with Herschel Walker in the backfield, would add one more score with remaining in the game, though a failed two-point conversion essentially sealed the deal and gave Joe Paterno his first national championship in Happy Valley. Tim Tebow's virtuoso performance in the Sugar Bowl may not have been particularly dramatic as far as the game was concerned, but it was darn impressive nonetheless.
The game served as something of a consolation for Florida after the Gators fell to Alabama in the SEC Championship Game, thereby ceding the opportunity to defend their national championship. Though with the way Tebow played, you'd have never known he wasn't playing for another ring. Tebow torched Cincinnati for yards and three touchdowns through the air along with 51 yards and another score on the ground to help the Gators chomp and stomp all over the poor Bearcats by a final score of That performance was more than a fitting end to Tebow's career at Florida, which may one day go down as one of the greatest ever seen in the history of college football.
It was originally borne out of the frustration of the Western Athletic Conference, which had grown tired of watching member schools and conference champions get passed over for selection in postseason bowl games. Therefore, in , the powers that be in the WAC organized a bowl game with an automatic tie-in for their conference champion and fielded what turned out to be a rather exciting matchup between two ranked teams, Arizona State and Florida State.
The game truly came into its own in , when it hosted a de facto national championship game between Miami and Penn State, both of which were independents at the time. The Nittany Lions triumphed, , in what was then the most watched game in the history of college football. From then on, the Fiesta Bowl became a key fixture in the college football postseason, slowly but surely overtaking the Cotton Bow Classic as the fourth-largest bowl game on the way to becoming a key member of the Bowl Championship Series.
Like many of the big bowl games, the Fiesta Bowl hasn't exactly escaped from controversy unscathed. As far as prevailing politics are concerned, several invitees boycotted the edition of the game when the state of Arizona refused to adopt the Martin Luther King Holiday. And most recently, the Fiesta Bowl came under fire when it was discovered that CEO John Junker, along with a number of other bowl officials, spent frivolously to curry favor with the powers that be in the BCS while also encouraging employees to make donations to certain political campaigns, a strict no-no for non-profit organizations.
Which, ironically enough, the Fiesta Bowl had not been, as it had managed to turn a profit and pass those earnings onto its higher-ups while most of its participants operated at a net loss.
The Fiesta Bowl has always found its home in Arizona, with only one move in its year history. In , the Fiesta Bowl moved on up to the brand-new University of Phoenix Stadium, where it has been held ever since.
The Fiesta Bowl has hosted far fewer national champions than any of the other three BCS bowls and understandably so. After all, the Sugar and Orange Bowls are each 36 years older than the Fiesta Bowl and, technically speaking, the Rose Bowl is a whopping 69 years older. The lead for most frequent visitor to the game consists of a four-way tie between Penn State, Arizona State, Nebraska and Oklahoma, though the Nittany Lions win out by way of their record in the Fiesta Bowl and their two national championships earned as a result of said victories.
That being said, Penn State did not have the privilege of playing the best Fiesta Bowl game, which also happens to be one of the most entertaining games in the history of the sport. The Fiesta Bowl was about as quintessential a David vs. Goliath matchup as you'll ever see in a bowl game. Selection committee members will have flexibility to examine whatever data they believe is relevant to inform their decisions.
They will also review a significant amount of game video. Among the many factors the committee will consider are win-loss record, strength of schedule, head-to-head results, comparison of results against common opponents and conference championships. Each committee member will evaluate the data at hand, and then the individuals will come together to make a group decision.
Will there be ballot votes to determine the top four teams? What about the other New Year's bowls? The voting process will include a series of ballots through which the committee members first select a pool of teams to be considered, then rank those teams. Individual ballots will be compiled into a composite ranking. Each committee member independently will evaluate an immense amount of information during the process. The selection committee process will be as transparent as possible, and both the selection committee and management committee will deliberate and determine the most appropriate ways to achieve that.
We want to create an arrangement that allows for maximum disclosure, while also allowing the committee to deliberate among themselves in a thoughtful and effective manner. The selection committee will have a structure and a defined set of procedures that will be made available to the public.
The committee will meet in person to evaluate teams and prepare interim rankings during the regular season. The committee will issue its first rankings of on Tuesday, November 2. These interim rankings will provide a measure of transparency and will enable teams and fans to understand the current state of play. The other dates for interim rankings will be Nov.
The final rankings and playoff matchups will be set on Sunday, Dec. The selection committee will meet in person on Mondays and Tuesdays for six consecutive weeks beginning in late October to formulate rankings, and will meet again during selection weekend to conduct a final evaluation and determine the pairings for the playoff and the other bowls. The number was chosen to allow for good representation, active discussion and differences of views, and to permit decision-making.
The management committee feels this is the right size -- not too small or too large. The top-priority criterion was integrity. There are five categories of individuals: People with experience as 1 coaches, 2 student-athletes, 3 administrators, 4 journalists and also 5 sitting directors of athletics.
The management committee gave careful consideration to the standards for membership and to identifying individuals who matched the criteria. Among the other valued attributes were football expertise, objectivity, ability to carefully evaluate and discern information and experience in making decisions under scrutiny. Members were asked to commit significant time to the endeavor. The directors of athletics ADs have some of the best institutional knowledge of college football, and the selection committee is much stronger with their participation.
The goal was to make the selection committee the best and strongest it can be, which is why ADs are included.
Like all selection committee members, ADs will act in the best interest of the game. How will the teams that are not in the playoff be selected for the other bowls that make up this new arrangement? All conferences negotiated individual bowl contracts for their champions.
Other available berths will be awarded to the teams ranked highest by the committee. The committee will assign teams to bowls. Can selection committee members serve more than one term? If so, how many terms are allowed or can they serve forever if they like? Members will serve one three-year term. Terms shall be staggered to allow for an eventual rotation of members.
Until the rotation has been achieved, certain terms may be shorter or longer. In the unlikely scenario where a committee member is unable to meet the obligations that come with serving on the committee, the management committee would seek a replacement.
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