The 1995 IBM

IBM

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 OS/2

OS/2

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 Fiesta Bowl

Fiesta Bowl

The Fiesta Bowl, now sponsored by Frito-Lay and named with their Tostitos brand, is a United States college football bowl game played annually at the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. Between its origination in 1971 and 2006, the game was hosted in Tempe, Arizona at Sun Devil...

, played on January 2, 1995, was the 24th edition of the Fiesta Bowl. The game featured the Colorado Buffaloes

1994 Colorado Buffaloes football team

The 1994 Colorado Buffaloes football team represented the University of Colorado at Boulder in the 1994 college football season. The Buffaloes offense scored 439 points while the defense allowed 235 points. The team was led by head coach Bill McCartney....

 and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish.

1st half

Colorado kicker, Neil Voskeritchian, started the scoring with a 33-yard field goal in the first quarter, to give the Buffalos the early 3–0 lead. Later in the 1st quarter, quarterback, Kordell Stewart

Kordell Stewart

Kordell Stewart, nicknamed "Slash" , is a former American NFL quarterback. Stewart attended the University of Colorado and was drafted 60th in the 1995 NFL draft by the Pittsburgh Steelers...

, tossed a 1-yard pass to Christian Fauria for a touchdown, and a 10-0 Colorado lead. Scott Cengia got Notre Dame on the board with a 29-yard field goal to cut the lead to 10–3.

In the second quarter Colorado sealed its win, by scoring three consecutive touchdowns. Kordell Stewart started by rushing 9 yards for a touchdown, then Rashaan Salaam

Rashaan Salaam

Rashaan Iman Salaam is a former professional American football player. Salaam won the 1994 Heisman Trophy as a running back for the University of Colorado at Boulder, rushing for 2,055 yards by the end of the season. Salaam is the fourth major college football player to rush for over 2,000 yards...

 scored two 1-yard touchdown runs to increase the lead to 31-3. Ron Powlus

Ron Powlus

Ronald Lee Powlus is a former American football quarterback, former quarterbacks coach for the University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, and current quarterbacks coach for the University of Akron Zips football team....

 threw a 9-yard touchdown pass to Derrick Mayes

Derrick Mayes

Derrick Binet Mayes is a former professional American football player who played wide receiver for the Seattle Seahawks, the Green Bay Packers, and the Kansas City Chiefs from 1996 to 2001....

to cut the lead to 31–10 before halftime.

2nd half

Powlus threw a 40-yard touchdown pass to Mays to cut the lead to 31–17, early in the third quarter. Then Voskeritchian kicked a 48-yard field goal to extend Colorado's lead to 34–17. Rashaan Salaam put the exclamation mark on the game with a 5-yard touchdown run, increasing Colorado's lead to 41–17. Notre Dame scored one last time on a 7-yard pass from Powlus to Leon Wallace to provide the final margin.

External links

• http://espn.go.com/abcsports/bcs/fiesta/s/1995.html