2013 Fiesta Bowl
| 2013 Tostitos Fiesta Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| BCS Bowl Game 42nd Fiesta Bowl |
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| Date | January 3, 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 2012 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | University of Phoenix Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Glendale, Arizona | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Offensive: Marcus Mariota (QB – Oregon) Defensive: Michael Clay (LB – Oregon) |
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| Favorite | Oregon by 8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Ron Cherry (ACC) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Halftime show | Bands from participants | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 70,242 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Network | ESPN, ESPN Deportes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | ESPN:
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| Nielsen ratings | 7.4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The 2013 Tostitos Fiesta Bowl was a postseason college football bowl game played on Thursday, January 3, 2013, at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. The Kansas State Wildcats, champions of the Big 12 Conference, played the Oregon Ducks, an at-large selection from the Pac-12 Conference. This was the only bowl game of the season to feature two top-10 ranked teams, other than the 2013 BCS National Championship Game.
The game started at 6:30 p.m. (MST) and aired on ESPN. Oregon won the game by a score of 35 points to 17 over Kansas State, making its second Fiesta Bowl title for the Ducks (first since 2001 in the 2002 Fiesta Bowl).
This was the first time Kansas State and Oregon played each other on the gridiron. The two teams were scheduled to meet during the 2012 regular season but the game was cancelled due to scheduling conflicts. On November 11, 2012, both schools were undefeated (10–0) and were ranked #1 or #2 in the polls and the BCS rankings. However, both schools lost their eleventh game of the season on November 17 to fall from the national championship race. Each finished the regular season with an 11–1 record.
This was the fourth Fiesta Bowl to match a Big 12 (formerly Big Eight) team and a Pac-12 (formerly Pacific-10) team. The previous such Fiesta Bowls occurred in 1983 (Oklahoma VS. Arizona State), 2002 (Colorado, then representing the Big 12, against Oregon) and 2012 (Oklahoma State VS. Stanford).
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