The Melbourne Gridiron-Bowl, Courtesy of BYU
Editor's note: Second of a two-part series about the BYU football program's games overseas and if the Cougars could schedule games like that again.
PROVO — Undoubtedly, it was the longest road trip in BYU football history. And it might have been the strangest.
A little more than three decades ago, on Dec. 5, 1987, the Cougars played Colorado State at Princes Park in Melbourne, Australia, in an event dubbed the Melbourne Gridiron Bowl, in the regular-season finale.