Tuesday is, of course, Election Day.
And it's also when a selection committee releases the first in a series of weekly Top 25 rankings leading up to what will be an expanded College Football Playoff.
For Fiesta Bowl Executive Director Erik Moses, it’s an especially special day.
“When we start to see that first ranking, and all of us can start doing the what-ifs in our head about what team might go where, what have you. We know that those things can change and that the way these teams are knocking each other off this season, nothing can be locked in," Moses said.
But tectonic changes across college athletics have clouded the future of the sport’s most prestigious bowls
From humble beginnings in Sun Devil Stadium, the Fiesta Bowl has now been a prominent fixture in college football for decades, hosting its first national championship game almost 40 years ago.
Through multiple postseason formats, moving the game to Glendale, and a campaign finance scheme that landed a CEO in federal prison, the Fiesta Bowl has been the forum for many playoff and title games.
But after college football’s dramatic expansion from four playoff teams to 12, the Fiesta Bowl will host a quarterfinal this year, and next season a semifinal.
Beyond then there are no guarantees.
“We are hard at work to make certain that the Valley will be represented and the Vrbo Fiesta Bowl will be part of the playoff for many years to come,” Moses said.
