The second round of the first 12-team College Football Playoff will be a combination of turn-back-the-clock traditional bowl games and odd matchups in strange sites. Hopefully, the games will be more competitive after the first round produced four home team victories by a combined 77 points.
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There aren’t a lot of firsts at Notre Dame. This was one of them
Where: Fiesta Bowl (Glendale, Ariz.)
When: Dec. 31, 7:30 p.m. ET on ESPN
History lesson
The Nittany Lions and Broncos have never played, but they both have history in Arizona. A case could be made that each program’s greatest victory occurred at the Fiesta Bowl.
For Boise State, it was on Jan. 1, 2007,
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