Sport: The Bowl of Bowls

On the second night of the new year, college football conjured up its own Super Bowl, and Joe Paterno said it was good. The National Broadcasting Company said it was great, and the bookies liked it too. Las Vegas Numerologist Bob Martin dubbed it the national "get even" bowl, one last plunge for everyone who had impulsively taken or given the points in any of the traditional Jan. 1 bowls, like the U.S.F.&G. Sugar Bowl.

The Sunkist Fiesta Bowl, not to be confused with the John Hancock Sun Bowl, paid No. 2 Penn State and No. 1 Miami $4.8 million to...