2002 Tostitos Fiesta Bowl
BCS Bowl Game 31st Fiesta Bowl
Sun Devil Stadium inTempe, Arizona, hosted the Fiesta Bowl.
Colorado Buffaloes Oregon Ducks (10–2) (10–1) Big 12 Pac-10 16 38 Head coach:  Gary Barnett Head coach:  Mike Bellotti AP Coaches BCS 3 3 3 AP Coaches BCS 2 2 4
1 2 3 4 Total Colorado 7 0 0 9 16 Oregon 7 14 7 10 38
Date	January 1, 2002
Season	2001
Stadium	Sun Devil Stadium
Location	Tempe, Arizona
MVP	Joey Harrington,QB Steve Smith,CB
National anthem	Boston
Referee	Al Ford (SEC)
Attendance	74,118
United States TV coverage
Network	ABC
Announcers	Brent Musburger,Gary Danielson
Nielsen ratings	11.3
Fiesta Bowl  ← 2001  2003 →

The2002TostitosFiesta Bowl, played on January 1, 2002, was the 31st edition of theFiesta Bowl. The game was played atSun Devil Stadium inTempe, Arizona between theColorado Buffaloes (ranked #3 in theBCS) and theOregon Ducks (ranked #4 in the BCS). Oregon was ranked #2 in both theAP Poll andCoaches Poll, leading to some controversy that Oregon should have played for the2002 BCS National Championship.

In the game, OregonquarterbackJoey Harrington threw for 350 yards and 4 touchdowns and led the Ducks to a 38–16 victory. Harrington was named offensive player of the game. OregoncornerbackSteve Smith had three interceptions, a Fiesta Bowl record, and was named defensive player of the game.^[1]

This was the first edition of the Fiesta Bowl to match two schools from the Western United States. Previous editions had either only one representative from the West, or none.

Colorado and Oregon became temporary conference rivals for 13 seasons when the Buffaloes joined Oregon's conference, thePac-12 Conference (formerly the Pacific-10 Conference), in 2011.

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