Fiesta Bowl is an American college football bowl game played annually in the Phoenix metropolitan area.
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Fiesta Bowl is an American college football bowl game played annually in the Phoenix metropolitan area.
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Since 1992, the Fiesta Bowl has been part of some organization of bowls designed to determine an undisputed national champion.
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In 1995, the organizers of the Fiesta Bowl joined with the Sugar Bowl and the Orange Bowl to form the Bowl Alliance, with each bowl guaranteed to host a championship game as the coaches' poll was contractually obligated to choose the winner of the Bowl Alliance championship game as its national champion.
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Fiesta Bowl was born from the Western Athletic Conference's frustrated attempts to obtain bowl invitations for its champions.
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However, in 1992, the Fiesta Bowl was invited to participate in the Bowl Coalition, a predecessor to the Bowl Championship Series.
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Finally, with the addition of the Big Ten and Pac-10 conferences to the new Bowl Championship Series, the Fiesta Bowl became a permanent fixture in the four-year BCS National Championship Game rotation.
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In 2002, the Fiesta Bowl had the right to take the Pac-10 Conference Champion, should that team not reach the Rose Bowl, which served as the national championship game that season.
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Fiesta Bowl was the first BCS bowl to have had a team from outside the automatic qualifying BCS conferences .
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Furthermore, as a non-profit organization, the Fiesta Bowl is prohibited from making political contributions of any kind.
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