#8 Notre Dame v. #7 Ohio State
University of Phoenix Stadium -- Glendale, AZ
January 1, 2016 -- 1:00 pm Eastern (ESPN)
Why You Should Watch
The Fiesta Bowl blossomed quickly from a guaranteed venue for WAC champions to play in a bowl game into one of the preeminent postseason contests in the...
In the lead-up to the upcoming college football season, Sports Unbiassed is taking a look at the top 20 teams with a chance to win the Access Bowl bid in 2015. You can find the full list of the Top 20, links to other team previews, and read more about the methodology behind the rankings here.
Boise State...
Ultimately David proved to be Goliath. Boise State returned to Glendale after claiming the Group of Five's Access Bowl bid and took full advantage of yet another big bowl appearance for the mid-major school. After securing a double-digit lead before halftime, the Broncos held on as Arizona mounted a vigorous comeback,...
The BCS era is over, and we are nearing the moment when New Year's Eve and New Year's Day are restored to preeminence on the bowl calendar. The catalyst for this change on the cusp of new epoch is the aggregation of the New Year's Six, expanding the elite series of bowl games from four to a half-dozen contests.
Two of...
#20 Boise State v. #10 Arizona
University of Phoenix Stadium -- Glendale, AZ
December 31, 2014 -- 4:00 pm Eastern (ESPN)
Why You Should Watch
The Fiesta Bowl, which rose from its original creation as a guaranteed bowl berth for the WAC to become a fixture of the BCS era, has become...
At face value, the upcoming College Football Playoff seems far more equitable for the gridiron game than the Bowl Championship Series ever managed to be during its 14-year reign. Sure, there were a couple of ready-made contests that provided what felt at face value like a definitive answer of supremacy for a given season. But over...
At first it seemed as though there wasn't going to be a BCS Buster in this final season before the College Football Playoff commences in the 2014-15 season. Fresno State fell to San Jose State the day after Thanksgiving, leaving NIU in position to repeat after last season's Orange Bowl berth. Then the Huskies bombed out against Bowling...
After Northern Illinois' improbable run to the Orange Bowl last season, a loss is no longer a death sentence for BCS Buster hopefuls in this final season of the standings. Just like the race for the BCS championship game, a loss hurts far less when it occurs early, so teams that fell this weekend could still potentially become a final...
The State of the Program Entering I-A
With far more tradition as a basketball school than a football factory, the University of Connecticut had little pedigree at the lower levels of the sport to draw upon when they vaulted to the I-A ranks in 2000. Despite fielding a team consistently since 1896, UConn was an afterthought season...
