One for the Ages...

A football movie script played out on the real gridiron in the Fiesta Bowl on Monday night. If it was an actual movie, the ending may not have been considered very believable.

I am sure that ten years from now, over a half million people will have attended the game played in Glendale, AZ last night. It was one of those rare times when one is rewarded for staying up late. I had intended to go to bed early to get "back in the swing of things". But I went to the basement to get something and was drawn in by the HD telecast of the Fiesta Bowl. I sat down to start watching when the score was 28-10, Boise State.

Boise State perfectly executed a few trick plays late in the fourth quarter and in overtime to defeat Oklahoma, 43-42, in one of the best finishes in recent memory.

The way it happened, which was incredible, is documented quite nicely here.

The method was true madness. And true genius. No coaching staff has ever ended a game with so much daring.

Out of conventional offensive options, first-year head coach Chris Petersen and first-year offensive coordinator Bryan Harsin went straight sandlot. They showed a career's worth of guts in calling one gadget play after another, rescuing Boise in a game it first had seemingly locked up, then had seemingly lost.

Asked if there could possibly be anything left in the playbook after this, the 30-year-old Harsin shook his head and smiled.

"No, no," he said. "We threw it all out right there."

But I will tell you that it included the best football game I have watched in many years. It also included the three best executed, most game-changing and courageous calls and plays I have EVER seen.

Just when you thought you had seen everything a college football game had to offer, the post-game interviews included the star running back proposing to his cheerleader girlfriend.

No money could ever buy the publicity that Boise State got last night.

If you didn't see the game and own a TIVO, check your listings for ESPN Classic as it will certainly appear as an "Instant Classic". If you did see it, watch it again and tell me Boise State shouldn't get a shot at Ohio Stae for the title.