COLUMBUS, Ohio — At the end of the 2005 college football season, an Ohio State team on the outside looking in of the national title picture headed to Arizona for a Fiesta Bowl matchup against Notre Dame, with an opportunity to build momentum heading into the following year on the line.
Sound familiar?
Sure, the coaches for the two teams may have changed, the NFL careers of many of the players who were on the field the last time the Buckeyes battled the Fighting Irish have came and went and even the game itself has moved from Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe to University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale.