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The 1996 Tostitos Fiesta Bowl game was a post-season college football bowl game in which the Nebraska Cornhuskers won the national championship for the 1995 college football season by defeating the Florida Gators, 62–24. Played on January 2, 1996, at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona, the game matched the #1 and #2 ranked teams in the nation, respectively, Nebraska and Florida. The game was part of the 1995–96 Bowl Alliance. ==Pregame hype== The game was billed as a classic #1 vs. #2 matchup, featuring two completely different but equally potent offenses. Nebraska, the defending national champion, opened the season by pounding Oklahoma State 64-21. It set the tone for a season in which no opponent came within 14 points, including three Top-10 ranked opponents whom the Huskers defeated by a combined score of 134–49 (#8 Kansas State, #7 Colorado and #10 Kansas). The Huskers averaged more than 53 points per game and 400 yards rushing. Florida, behind the passing of future Heisman winner Danny Wuerffel, had racked up similarly impressive offensive numbers, though mostly through the air. They emerged unbeaten through a brutal Southeastern Conference schedule, having throttled rivals Tennessee and Florida State, and whipping Arkansas 34–3 in the SEC championship game. Florida, like Nebraska, had rarely been tested; its closest margin of victory had been 11 points. Oddsmakers had made Nebraska about a 3-point favorite going into the game. However, many experts picked Florida to win, as it was thought that Nebraska's option attack would not succeed very well on Sun Devil Stadium's grass field, and that Wuerffel's passing arm would be too deadly for Nebraska to stop. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1996 Fiesta Bowl」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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