Fiesta bowl holds the Big 12 Conference champion when BCS games
In 1998 , the Fiesta Bowl featured the first BCS National Championship Game , which Tennessee won over Florida State , 23 to 16.Starting with the 1999 season , the Fiesta Bowl began hosting the Big 12 Conference champion in years when it was not slated as the BCS title game , an arrangement that continued to the end of the BCS era.