The 2001 Tostitos

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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 1, 2001, was the 30th edition of the Fiesta Bowl

Fiesta Bowl

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. The game was played at Sun Devil Stadium

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 in Tempe, Arizona

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 between the Oregon State Beavers

2000 Oregon State Beavers football team

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 (ranked #5 in the AP Poll

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) and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish (ranked #10 in the AP Poll).

In the game, Oregon State quarterback

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 Jonathan Smith threw for 305 yards and 3 touchdowns and led the Beavers to a 41–9 rout. Chad Johnson had two of the touchdown receptions and future Cincinnati Bengals

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 teammate T. J. Houshmandzadeh

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caught the other touchdown. The Beavers scored 29 points in one eight-minute stretch of the third quarter to put the game away.

Smith was the named the offensive player of the game, and Beavers linebacker Darnell Robinson, who recorded two sacks, forced a fumble, and made an interception, was the defensive player of the game.