The Melbourne Gridiron-Bowl, Courtesy of BYU
Souvenir program from the The Melbourne Gridiron Bowl. BYU defeated Colorado State on Dec. 5, 1987, 30-26, in the regular-season finale for both teams in Melbourne, Australia.
Editor's note: First of a two-part series about the BYU football program's games overseas and if the Cougars could schedule games like that again.
PROVO — Undoubtedly, it was the longest road trip in BYU football history. And it might have been the strangest.
A little more than three decades ago, on Dec.