2008 Tostitos Fiesta Bowl was a college football bowl game . It was part of the 2007 – 2008 Bowl Championship Series ( BCS ) of the 2007 NCAA Division I FBS football season . Played annually since 1971 , first at Sun Devil Stadium on the campus of Arizona State University in Tempe , Arizona through 2006 , the game was played at 8 p.m. EST on January 2 , 2008 , at the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale , Arizona . The game featured the fourth ranked ( BCS ) , Big 12 champion Oklahoma Sooners hosting the ninth ranked ( BCS ) , Big East champion West Virginia Mountaineers . West Virginia defeated Oklahoma by a score of 48 – 28 . The contest was televised on Fox
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2008 Fiesta Bowl