2003 Fiesta Bowl

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The 2003 Tostitos Fiesta Bowl was a college football bowl game designated as the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) National Championship Game for the 2002 NCAA Division I-A football season. It took place on January 3, 2003 at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona, pitting the Ohio State Buckeyes, co-champions of the Big Ten Conference, against the heavily favored Miami Hurricanes, defending national champions and champions of the Big East Conference. Led by head coach Jim Tressel, the Buckeyes defeated the Hurricanes in double overtime by a final score of 31 - 24, winning the program its first consensus national championship since the 1968 season. In the midst of a resurgence after a period of turmoil in the 1990s, Miami had won the previous season's national championship in dominant fashion under new head coach Larry Coker and entered the Fiesta Bowl with a 34-game win streak. Ohio State, meanwhile, had narrowly missed national championship opportunities over the past decade, and their most...

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