The 2007 Fiesta Bowl overtime game between the Big 12 champion Oklahoma Sooners and WAC champion Boise State Broncos put the latter map in college football.
The 2007 Fiesta Bowl overtime game between that year's Big 12 champion Oklahoma Sooners and WAC champion Boise State Broncos put the latter map in college football. Boise State upset the blue-blood Oklahoma in overtime at State Farm Stadium, 43-42.
That game also established former NFL player-turned-TV sportscaster Charles Davis as a fixture in the broadcast booth covering the sport. Long before he became an NFL on CBS analyst, Davis covered that bowl game on Fox.Q: What was you and your CBS colleagues’ initial reaction that you were going to cover the 2007 Fiesta Bowl?
A: “I never really wondered about the reaction at all. We were fortunate enough that this was 2007 when I did the Fiesta Bowl and the national championship game there . It was part of the BCS and it didn’t matter to me about anything else. We were doing two of the better games that you were going to find. They were BCS bowl games and the game we did, the first one which was Boise State-Oklahoma.
When Oklahoma came in and really battled their way through, but it was still Oklahoma-Boise State. There’s no way to create that matchup other than to say David versus Goliath. And don’t forget that was Chris Petersen’s first year as a head coach . They’ve always had successful programs, coaches have always done a nice job at Boise and bounced to bigger jobs. Houston Nutt had gone through there and bounced up to Arkansas.
And then at the end the great wedding proposal with Ian Johnson and his girlfriend who was a cheerleader. I always tease Chris Myers and say, ‘Chris, you were right in the middle of it. I thinkactually asked her to marry you as opposed to Ian. Get the hell out of the way, man. Let the man ask the question.’ But what got lost in it that were Goliath, Oklahoma played their hearts out because they could’ve faded on that one quickly.
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