| 2010 Tostitos Fiesta Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| BCS Bowl Game 39th Fiesta Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | January 4, 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 2009 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | University of Phoenix Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Glendale, Arizona | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Offensive: Kyle Efaw Defensive: Brandyn Thompson | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National anthem | Michael McDonald | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Bill LeMonnier (Big Ten Conference) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 73,227 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Payout | US$18,000,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Network | FOX | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Sam Rosen (play-by-play) Tim Ryan (color) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nielsen ratings | 8.2[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
The 2010 Tostitos Fiesta Bowl game was a post-season college football bowl game between the #4 TCU Horned Frogs, champions of the Mountain West Conference, and the #6 Boise State Broncos, champions of the Western Athletic Conference. The game was played Monday, January 4, 2010, at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. The game was part of the 2009–10 Bowl Championship Series (BCS) of the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season and was the concluding game of the season for both teams involved.
For the second consecutive year, TCU and BSU faced off in a bowl game of historic significance. In the 2008 Poinsettia Bowl, TCU and Boise State played in the first non-BCS game ever in which both teams were ranked higher than both participants in a BCS bowl game in the same season (specifically the 2009 Orange Bowl), with the Horned Frogs winning 17–16.
Boise State would finish its season 14–0, making the Broncos the second team in BCS history (after Ohio State in 2002) to finish with a perfect 14–0 record; Alabama would become the third team to do so just a few nights later, defeating Texas 37–21 in the 2010 BCS National Championship Game.