Coldplay’s "Music of the Spheres" tour lit up El Paso’s Sun Bowl with vibrant visuals, fan energy and unforgettable music under the desert sky.

The El Paso fan base is huge. I had cousins watching games every Saturday. That Notre Dame was open for the Sun Bowl to pick was part "luck of the Irish" (Olivas' words) and part inexplicable.

Again, yes, there is an opponent and that competitive spirit when two teams play each other, but there is another piece of being here in El Paso as part of this Sun Bowl that excites our ...