Fiesta Bowl Will Serve as Possible Title Game
The Fiesta Bowl will be the new bowl alliance’s first potential national championship college football game after the 1995 season.
As the highest bidder among the three alliance members at $118 million, the Fiesta Bowl had the option of staging the alliance’s first potential title matchup. The game will be Jan. 2, 1996.
The new bowl alliance was created this summer to replace the existing agreement that expires after this season.
On a rotating basis, the Fiesta, Orange and Sugar bowls will have the opportunity to match up the two top-ranked teams from the Atlantic Coast, Big East, Big 12 and Southeastern conferences as well as Notre Dame. The Rose Bowl will continue to invite the Big Ten and Pac-10 champions.
The Fiesta Bowl’s choice to be the first potential title site was disclosed during a news conference to announce that the Dial Corp has signed on as a “backup sponsor” from 1996 through Jan. 1, 2001.
Dial will replace IBM OS/2, which notified the Fiesta Bowl on Wednesday that it would pull out as title sponsor after next January.
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