It’s not the college football playoff and it’s not the Rose Bowl. It’s the bowl, brought to you by an energy company, that celebrates the brave sacrifices of Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie, and some 200 Texans trying to hold off Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna’s army at the Alamo during the Texas Revolution in 1836.
There will be no improper comparisons made between that battle and the game that’s named after it, considering Utah is facing Texas at the Alamodome on Tuesday. OK, there might be just one.
It is not their last stand, but … well, it kind of is, at least in terms of football.