2011 Fiesta Bowl

BCS Bowl Games Announced…
After a great weekend of college football, the BCS has made their selections to the top major bowl games. You can purchase your travel package now to any of these great games. The BCS Bowl games are as followed:

    * BCS National Championship: Florida Gators vs. Oklahoma Sooners
    * Rose Bowl: Penn State Nittany Lions vs. USC Trojans
    * Orange Bowl: Cincinnati Bearcats vs. Virginia Tech Hokies
    * Sugar Bowl: Utah Utes vs. Alabama Crimson Tide
    * Fiesta Bowl: Ohio State Buckeyes vs. Texas Longhorns

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2009 Fiesta Bowl --- Glendale, Arizona ---

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The 2009 Fiesta Bowl will be played on January 1st 2011, in Glendale Arizona. The annual tradition of the Fiesta Bowl began in 1971, in an attempt to have an automatic bid for the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) Champion. The association between the Fiesta Bowl and the WAC ended in 1978 when Arizona and Arizona State joined the Pacific 10 Conference.

Today, under the current BCS agreement, the Fiesta Bowl will play host to the Big 12 Champions. In the 2008 Fiesta Bowl, the Oklahoma Sooners faced off against the West Virgina Mountaineers, with the Mountaineers coming out victorious, by the score of 48-28. In the 2009 Fiesta Bowl, the potential teams include: the Boise State Broncos, the Texas Tech Red Raiders, the Texas Longhorns, the Oklahoma Sooners, the Missouri Tigers, and the USC Trojans.

The 2009 Fiesta Bowl will be played at beautiful University of Phoenix Stadium, in Glendale Arizona. In addition to currently hosting the Fiesta Bowl, University of Phoenix Stadium is also host to the Arizona Cardinals. The stadium opened in August, 2006. The stadium is the first in the United States to have a fully retractable natural grass playing surface. An opening at one side of the stadium allows the field to move outside of the stadium, so the entire playing surface is able to receive sunlight when not in use.

In addition to the retractable field the stadium also has a retractable roof, providing relief from the desert heat. The stadium has a permanent seating capacity of 63,400 and is expandable to just over 73,000. In the venues short history, it has already played host to one of the biggest sporting events in the world, as it hosted Super Bowl XLII in 2008.

The 2011 BCS National Championship Title game will be held on January 10, in Glendale, AZ at University of Phoenix Stadium.  University of Phoenix Stadium is located in Glendale, Arizona, and is home to the NFL’s Arizona Cardinals and the annual Fiesta Bowl.  University of Phoenix Stadium is located next door to the Jobing.com Arena, the home of the NHL’s Phoenix Coyotes.  University of Phoenix Stadium hosted Super Bowl XLII and the 2007 BCS National Championship Game.

This state-of-the-art facility opened on August 1, 2006 after 3 years of construction.  The seating capacity for University of Phoenix Stadium is 63,400 and it can be expandable to 73,719. University of Phoenix Stadium features some of the most recent developments in technology.  Many stadiums built today feature retractable roofs, but University of Phoenix Stadium took this technology one step further.  The stadium features a retractable field.  This allows for the stadium to have a natural grass playing field that grows outside and is then moved into the stadium on game days.  The retractable roof of the stadium is made out of translucent "Bird-Air" fabric and opens in twelve minutes. It is the first retractable roof ever built on an incline.

Chase field is home of the Arizona Diamondbacks.  The Diamondbacks started in 1998 and won their first World Series in 2001.  It only took them 3 years!