Labeled as “Home of the ACC Champion” since the latest BCS agreement in 2007, the FedEx Orange Bowl now annually plays host to the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) champion as that team faces off against another highly ranked at-large team. The 2009 matchup saw the Big East Champion Cincinnati Bearcats go up against the ACC Champion Virginia Tech Hokies, with the outcome having Hokies leaving Miami with a 20-7 win under their belts. With multiple ACC teams always to be found in the top 25 BCS rankings, chances are that the Orange Bowl will not only be a very competitive and entertaining contest, but also one the most popular water cooler topics across the country the day after the game.
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The BCS is a series of five college football bowl games, and created with the intention of ending up with the #1 and #2 ranked teams in the country facing off to determine a true National Champion, while providing four other highly competitive bowl games between eight more of the highest ranked college football teams in the country. The five BCS games are the Fiesta Bowl, the Orange Bowl, the Rose Bowl, the Sugar Bowl, and the BCS National Championship Game.
The Orange Bowl is the fourth-oldest bowl game in history, behind only the Rose Bowl, Sun Bowl, and Sugar Bowl, with crowds averaging in excess of 75,000 each year during the past decade; the game is undoubtedly one of college football’s all-time most popular postseason games, and 2010 should be no different.
The Orange Bowl was twice a previous site for the BCS National Championship Game in 2001 and 2005. However, in 2007, it was decided that the BCS National Championship Game should become a stand-alone event, scheduled to take place at one of the BCS bowl sites one week following the New Year's Day bowl games. As a result of this agreement, the Orange Bowl found itself hosting two games in 2009 – the traditional Orange Bowl on January 1, and then the BCS National Championship Game on January 8, both at Miami’s LandShark Stadium.
If you are looking for one of the best postseason bowl games, in one of the best places to watch a game in January, look no further! Get your FedEx Orange Bowl tickets now, and make plans to spend January 5, 2010 inside LandShark Stadium in Miami watching one of the best BCS games of the year.