Sometime in life, the best moments are spontaneous.
When COVID problems for Boise State and Miami [FL] forced their respective bowl committees to scramble for new opponents over the weekend, it presented a unique opportunity, and on Monday evening, a spontaneous moment was created, as the new-look Sun Bowl was officially announced, giving both teams just over 80 or so hours of preparation for one another.
On Friday afternoon, the Central Michigan Chippewas (9-4, 6-2 MAC) and the Washington State Cougars (7-6, 5-3 PAC-12) met in El Paso, Texas, a position neither team expected to be in as recently as Monday morning, and ended up providing one of the most exciting bowl games of the 2021 postseason in a wild, back-and-forth event born of necessity, ending in what would turn out to be a 24-21 victory for the Chippewas in the 88th annual Sun Bowl.