Fiesta Bowl
Date played MVPs Team Position
January 1 , 1997 Curtis Enis Penn State TB
January 1 , 1997 Brandon Noble Penn State DT
December 31 , 1997 Michael Bishop Kansas State QB
December 31 , 1997 Travis Ochs Kansas State LB
January 4 , 1999 Peerless Price Tennessee WR
January 4 , 1999 Dwayne Goodrich Tennessee CB
January 2 , 2000 Eric Crouch Nebraska QB
January 2 , 2000 Mike Brown Nebraska DB
January 1 , 2001 Jonathan Smith Oregon State QB
January 1 , 2001 Darnell Robinson Oregon State LB
January 1 , 2002 Joey Harrington Oregon QB
January 1 , 2002 Steve Smith Oregon DB
January 3 , 2003 Craig Krenzel Ohio State QB
January 3 , 2003 Mike Doss Ohio State SS
January 2 , 2004 Craig Krenzel Ohio State QB
January 2 , 2004 A. J. Hawk Ohio State OLB
January 1 , 2005 Alex Smith Utah QB
January 1 , 2005 Paris Warren Utah WR
January 1 , 2005 Steve Fifita Utah NG
January 2 , 2006 Troy Smith Ohio State QB
The Fiesta Bowl is an American college football bowl game played annually in the Phoenix metropolitan area. From its beginning in 1971 through 2006, the game was hosted in Tempe, Arizona at Sun Devil Stadium. Since 2007, it has been held at the State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. Since December 2016, it has been sponsored by PlayStation and officially known as the PlayStation Fiesta Bowl. The January 2016 game was sponsored by BattleFrog, creators of the obstacle racing series featured in the ESPN program BattleFrog College Championship, and Vizio sponsored the December 2014 game. From 1996 through the January 2014 game, Frito-Lay was the bowl's title sponsor through its Tostitos tortilla chip brand. Other previous sponsors include IBM (1993-1995) and Sunkist (1986-1990). In 1998, the Fiesta Bowl became part of the Bowl Championship Series (BCS), and before 2006 every four years (most recently in 2010) was the designee for the national championship game. Beginning with the 2014 season, Fiesta Bowl became a member of College Football Playoff, hosting a semifinal game every three years; all the teams playing in this bowl will be selected by the CFP Selection Committee in those years. The Fiesta Bowl has donated more than $12 million to charity.