SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. ? The Boise State Broncos left their resort hotel Tuesday to make room for the Florida Gators, who arrived to prepare for next week’s BCS title game against Ohio State.

But the ninth-ranked Broncos remained the talk of college football on the day after their exhilarating 43-42 overtime victory over No. 7 Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl on Monday night in Glendale. That’s what happens when a team comes out of the college football hinterlands and takes down a traditional powerhouse with plays that looked as if they were drawn up in the dirt.

For one day, at least, Boise State’s victory cast a shadow over the Bowl Championship Series title game.

“This probably goes down in the history of college football,” said Broncos quarterback Jared Zabransky, who threw three touchdown passes to earn offensive most valuable player honors.

The Broncos blew an 18-point lead midway through the third quarter, then twice overcame touchdown deficits – once in the final minute and again in overtime.

Two plays made it happen and left fans buzzing as they returned to work on Tuesday.

The first came on a hook-and-lateral pass with the Broncos trailing 35-28 and facing fourth-and-18 from the 50-yard line in the final seconds of regulation. Zabransky hit Drisan James at Oklahoma’s 35, and James pitched the ball to Jerard Rabb, who outran the pursuit to the end zone with seven seconds to play.

Boise State's Jared Zabransky (5) hands off behind his back to Ian Johnson, left, for a two-point conversion. The play won the Fiesta Bowl in overtime Monday in Scottsdale, Ariz.

“You hope you never have to call it because it’s not a good situation,” said Boise State coach Chris Petersen, who is 13-0 as a head coach. “But we work on it every week, once a week on Friday. The guys love it.”

That sent the game into overtime. After the Sooners’ Adrian Peterson scored on a 25-yard run on the first play, the Broncos tied it up on a fourth-down pass from receiver Vinny Perretta to Derek Schouman.

Sensing that his players were exhausted, Petersen already had decided to go for two. “We liked the play we had for a two-point conversion,” Petersen said. “It really wasn’t a difficult decision at that point.”

The Broncos lined up with three wide receivers to the right. Zabransky faked a pass to that side, then handed the ball behind his back to tailback Ian Johnson, who swept around left end and into the end zone.

“We were kind of like in awe the way (Zabransky) did the misdirection with the ball,” Oklahoma linebacker Rufus Alexander said.

If either play had failed, the Broncos would have become a footnote. Instead, the Western Athletic Conference champions became a prime exhibit in the case for opening the BCS to unaffiliated conferences.