SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — The moment is etched in the memories of college football fans everywhere, and Boise State’s thrilling finish to the 2007 Fiesta Bowl — the Statue of Liberty run to beat Oklahoma and Ian Johnson’s marriage proposal immediately after — is the one play most often associated with Chris Petersen’s career.
Eleven years later, that’s not something Petersen particularly cares to talk about as his Huskies prepare for their first Fiesta Bowl against Penn State on Saturday.
“After the game went down, we really tried to spend a lot of time moving on from it because that’s all anybody wanted to talk about,” Petersen said Friday morning.