Just the press releases for Fiesta Bowl. This is the official site. Jennie Finch will be the Grand Marshal for the Fiesta Parade. No photos. Bummer. Pitt and Utah have never played each other. The “Fiesta Bowl Block Party” will be headlined by Smash Mouth. That may have okay… 5 years ago. What? Hootie and the Blowfish were booked? (That was an uncalled for cheap shot.)

Pitt ticket info here.

Pitt’s press release accepting the invitation. Here’s Utah’s.

More interestingly, the press release from Utah explaining how Coach Urban Meyer, while leaving for the Florida job will stay to coach the Fiesta Bowl. Good. That sort of thing can only help distract the Utes as far as I’m concerned.

Here’s Utah’s Coach and players’ comments about going to the Fiesta Bowl, Coach Meyer leaving, and playing Pitt. Basically, all the players admit that they no next to nothing about Pitt. That they haven’t seen them play yet, but they’ll be seeing plenty of film shortly.

Here’s comments from Coach Walt Harris. The best one:

“I’m proud of what our football team has accomplished. I really emphasis the word we; It’s not me, it’s about us, it’s about the team. It’s about all the people that support us loyalty, constantly, and continuously. It’s about football players, too. What our football players have accomplished this year, has made them a team. A lot of team wouldn’t have gotten down that they have gotten down under the circumstances and adversity that they have faced, and the turmoil they have created, if they didn’t have the right stuff. There are the ones that got it done and they deserve all the credit.”

We’ve given Harris plenty of criticisms in the past for the “Not my fault” stuff, so it is important to recognize when he is giving the credit to the others.

The AP wire story paints it as the Fiesta Bowl having no choice but to take Pitt, but is thrilled to have Utah. I’m not going to rail on this. This will be the theme, no matter what. We’ve covered this before.

I expect that some trolls will make their way here to try and complain and rip on Pitt for being in the BCS. Whatever. We all know the BCS sucks. It isn’t a playoff. The bowl system is about money for the conference “haves” of which the Big East is still one of.