In the beginning from around 1935 to 1937, Orange Bowl game was held at the Miami Field where the Miami Orange Bowl stadium was located. The Orange Bowl game began to be held at the stadium. The very next year it had to be moved to Dolphin Stadium located in Miami Gardens. Since 1989, the corporate title sponsor has been FedEx (formerly Federal Express) renaming the game with the official title of FedEx Orange Bowl. The year 1999, witnessed the game being played at the namesake stadium because the Miami Dolphins were hosting an NFL Wild Card Playoff game on the same date. Both these games were coincidentally aired on the same day on ABC.

The Orange Bowl game usually featured the champion of the former Big Eight Conference, from 1968. The team members created the basis of the current Big 12 Conference. Moreover, after the Bowl Championship Series system creation, ever since 1998, the selection of the team has been associated to other three BCS Bowls. Unless the game was invited into the National Championship game, it hosted either the ACC champions or Big East conference's champion from 1998 to 2005.

After the 2006 season, the Bowl was exclusively tied with the ACC, using the brand Home of the ACC Champion. Just like other Bowl Championship Series (BCS) bowl, the Orange Bowl hosted the national championship game according to the BCS system, once in every four years. It hosted the games on January 4, 2005. The other bowl games that were associated to the BCS and followed the same procedure are Sugar, Fiesta, and Rose Bowls.

Though, the 2007 Orange Bowl game was aired on Fox. ABC, while the precious eight years game was aired by CBS. All the football lovers kindly update themselves that for this year the venue for the game has been changed, is it going to be played at Dolphin Stadium on January 3rd, 2008. Also the ACC Champion Virginia Tech and Big 12 At-Large University of Kansas will feature in the game. Make sure you don't miss your chance, quickly book your tickets.