As Arizona prepares for its showdown with SMU in the Holiday Bowl, we went digging through the KGUN 9 archives to find the first time the Wildcats played in the Holiday Bowl in San Diego. The game capped off Arizona's magical 1998 season, the best in program history.

The 1998 Holiday Bowl ended with Arizona players hoisting the Holiday Bowl on a late December night. The Wildcats had just knocked off the reigning National Champion Nebraska Cornhuskers.

"It's a great memory for me," Brent Brennan recently said. "It's a great memory for my family."

Current Arizona Head Coach Brent Brennan remembers the game against Nebraska, well that's because he was there, rooting on his younger brother.

"Nebraska was a big-time opponent coming in there ranked," recalled Brennan. "(Eric) Crouch was thei

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