Fiesta Bowl

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The Fiesta Bowl is an annual American college football bowl game played in the Phoenix metropolitan area since 1971. From its beginning until 2006, the game was hosted at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona. Since 2007, the game has been played at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. Since 2022, it has been sponsored by Vrbo and officially known as the Vrbo Fiesta Bowl. Previous sponsors include PlayStation (December 2016–2022), BattleFrog (January 2016), Vizio (December 2014), Tostitos (1996–January 2014), IBM (1993–1995) and Sunkist (1986–1990). Unlike other major bowls, the Fiesta Bowl has not always had major conference tie-ins. For the first nine editions, the Western Athletic Conference champion was invited to the bowl. In 1997, the Fiesta Bowl agreed to invite the champion of the newly-formed Big 12 Conference; the tie-in continued until 2014 when the Big 12 moved to the Sugar Bowl. During the late 1980s, the Fiesta Bowl used its lack of tie-ins to create two de facto national championship games between independents or teams from conferences without mandatory bowl obligations. These games increased the Fiesta Bowl's stature. Beginning in 1992, the Fiesta Bowl joined with several other bowls to create the Bowl Coalition in an effort to produce an undisputed national champion in college football. It subsequently was part of the Bowl Alliance and Bowl Championship Series. From 1992 to 2006, the Fiesta Bowl served as the national championship game of these systems in 1996, 1999, and 2002. The Phoenix metropolitan area and the Fiesta Bowl Committee hosted the BCS National Championship Game in 2007 and 2011 in addition to the regular Fiesta Bowl game. In 2014, the Fiesta Bowl, along with the "New Year's Six" bowls, became a part of the College Football Playoff. As part of the four team playoff from 2014 to 2023,...