People thought Boise State even don’t have a chance to beat Oklahoma, but in the 36th Annual Tostitos Fiesta Bowl, Boise State proved people were wrong, and they started a new football history.
The Big 12 Conference champion Oklahoma, was upset by the series of trick plays showed by Boise State, 43-42, in overtime in the final college football game at the University of Phoenix Stadium.
No matter you believed in miracle or not, but miracles does happened on the Fiesta Bowl. The Broncos and Sooners combined for 22 points in the last 86 seconds and send the game to overtime. Oklahoma just use one play to take the lead in the overtime, but Boise needs six plays to have a touchdown.
Boise State had a great start. They lead at the beginning of the game, 14-0, and held a 28-10 lead midway through the third quarter. The tide started to turn when Adrian Peterson went in for a touchdown, followed by Garrett Hartley’s 28-yard field goal.
The momentum of Oklahoma to catch up had became greater when Quentin Chaney got a 5 yard pass from Paul Thompson and did another touchdown, the score now was 28-28. Oklahoma did not want to slow down their attack, so Marcus Walker just intercept the ball and did a 33 yard return, the score was 28-35.
When most of the people thought the Oklahoma was the winner of the Fiesta Bowl, Gerard Rabb got a 35 yard pass from Jared Zabransky and did a touchdown, send the game to overtime.
Oklahoma scored a touchdown in the first play of overtime. It took Boise six plays to score a touchdown on a halfback pass on fourth-down from Vinny Perretta to Derek Schoumen. The score was 41-42.
Boise coach Chris Peterson decided to go for the victory. He chose a rare trick play called the “Statue of Liberty”, and it was executed perfectly by quarterback Jared Zabansk and the running back Ian Johnson. The final score was 43-42, Boise has won, and created the whole new football history.
“Just because you don’t look like a football player, it doesn’t mean you can’t be a great football player.” Said Ian Johnson.
Charles Yang
hey,Charles
ReplyDeleteI really like your "new football history" phrase. I'm going to start using it. You are right too--that did start a new football history for small colleges in the big league. The "momentum of Oklahoma to catch up" is a good description too. It captures the intensity of the game. Keep writing. I like the way you put words together. They work.
joyce