This article is about the
Fiesta Bowl that followed the 1997 season, played on December 31, 1997. For the game that followed the 1996 season, played on January 1, 1997, see
1997 Fiesta Bowl (January).
College football game
The 1997 Tostitos Fiesta Bowl game was a post-season college football bowl game between the Kansas State Wildcats and the Syracuse Orangemen on December 31, 1997, at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona. Kansas State defeated Syracuse, 35-18. The game was part of the 1997-1998 Bowl Alliance of the 1997 NCAA Division I-A football season and represented the concluding game of the season for both teams.