If you had to pick the greatest day in bowl history, it would be hard to beat the day that No. 2 Alabama stopped No. 1 Penn State on a fourth-quarter goal-line stand to win the Sugar Bowl and a national championship 14-7.
Oh, yeah? What about the day that Joe Montana, weakened by a virus and the icy, freezing rain at the Cotton Bowl, returned to the field and led No. 10 Notre Dame back from a 22-point, fourth-quarter deficit to defeat No. 9 Houston 35-34.
Turns out they were the same day, Jan. 1, 1979.