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2014 Fiesta Bowl (January)

2014 Tostitos Fiesta Bowl
BCS Bowl Game
43rd Fiesta Bowl
1 2 3 4 Total
UCF 14 14 7 17 52
Baylor 7 13 8 14 42
Date January 1, 2014
Season 2013
Stadium University of Phoenix Stadium
Location Glendale, Arizona
MVP Offensive: Blake Bortles (QB – UCF)
Defensive: Terrance Plummer (LB – UCF)
Favorite Baylor by 16½
Referee Tom Ritter (SEC)
Halftime show Bands from participants
Attendance 65,172
Payout US$24 million
United States TV coverage
Network ESPN, ESPN Deportes
Announcers ESPN:
Nielsen ratings 6.6 (11.2 Million viewers)
Fiesta Bowl
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The 2014 Fiesta Bowl was a college football bowl game that was played on Wednesday, January 1, 2014, at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. In this, the 43rd annual Fiesta Bowl, the Baylor Bears, champions of the Big 12 Conference, played the UCF Knights, champions of the American Athletic Conference. The game was broadcast live on ESPN at 6:30 PM MST. It was one of the 2013–14 bowl games that concluded the 2013 FBS football season. It was sponsored by the Tostitos snack food brand and was officially known as the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl.

UCF defeated Baylor by a score of 52–42, becoming the biggest underdog victors in BCS history. Baylor, who had gone into the game as a 16.5 point favorite also missed a field goal. UCF was flagged for just 4 penalties totaling 40 yards.

This was the first time Baylor and UCF played each other on the gridiron. The Baylor Bears went to the Fiesta Bowl as the Big 12 champion. UCF earned an automatic berth to a BCS game by winning The American (formerly the Big East). Per the rotation in place since the 2008 season, it was the Fiesta Bowl's turn to host the champion of the American, after the 2012 Orange Bowl and 2013 Sugar Bowl hosted the Big East champion in the last two seasons.


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