At nearly 300 members, the Fresno State marching band is the biggest in the Mountain West conference.
And at the start of the New Year it'll get the chance to do something that no other Bulldog group has done before -- an invitation to play in the Rose Parade in Pasadena for the first time in program history.
But that's not the only historic trip for the group. Come March, it heads overseas to Dublin, Ireland to play in the annual St. Patrick's Day parade.