With average crowds in excess of 75,000 each of the last ten years, the FedEx Orange Bowl is undoubtedly one of college football's most popular, with this year's game sure to be another great bowl matchup.
Since 2007 the Orange Bowl, also known as "Home of the ACC Champion" has pitted the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) champion against a highly ranked at-large team. The 2009 match up was between the Big East Conference Champion, the Cincinnati Bearcats, and the ACC Conference Champion, the Virginia Tech Hokies – ending with the Hokies leaving Miami as 20-7 victors. With three ACC teams still in the top 25 BCS rankings the conference looks to continue making the Orange Bowl one of the nation's most talked about games.
Behind only the Rose Bowl, the Sun Bowl, and the Sugar Bowl, the Orange Bowl is the fourth-oldest bowl game in history, and also a member of the Bowl Championship Series.
The Bowl Championship Series (BCS) is a five-game series of postseason college football games, designed to match the #1 and #2 ranked teams in a national championship game, while providing four other exciting and competitive games amongst eight of the most highly regarded teams in college football that year. The five BCS bowl games are the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl, the FedEx Orange Bowl, the Rose Bowl Game presented by Citi, the Allstate Sugar Bowl, and the BCS National Championship Game that is rotated between BCS bowl sites each year.
