2009 Orange Bowl
The 2009 FedEx Orange Bowl was the 75th edition of the annual American college football bowl game known as the Orange Bowl. It pitted the 2008 Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) champion Virginia Tech Hokies against the Big East Conference champion Cincinnati Bearcats on January 1, 2009, at Dolphin Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. Virginia Tech defeated Cincinnati, 20–7. The game was the second contest in the 2008–2009 Bowl Championship Series (BCS) of the 2008 NCAA Division I FBS football season and was the concluding game of the season for both teams. The game was televised in the United States on FOX, and an estimated 9.3 million viewers watched the broadcast live.
2007–08 NCAA football bowl games
The loss was the fourth straight in the BCS and second consecutive in the Fiesta Bowl for head coach Bob Stoops's Sooners, who lost a memorable game a year earlier to Boise State. Bill Stewart, who led the Mountaineers after Rich Rodriguez bolted for Michigan after the regular season, was rewarded for his work in this game by being named permanent head coach for the 2008 season.On January 3, 2008, while much of the country was focused on the first major preliminary event of the 2008 Presidential Election campaign in the US, the Iowa caucuses, the Big 12's University of Kansas Jayhawks defeated the ACC Champion Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) Hokies, 24–21, at the FedEx Orange Bowl in Miami Gardens, Florida's Dolphin Stadium.The 2008 Allstate BCS National Championship Game was the third post-season contest at New Orleans' Louisiana Superdome and was played on January 7, 2008. The SEC Champion Louisiana State University Tigers overcame a 10–0 deficit to beat the Big Ten Champion Ohio State University Buckeyes, 38–24, in front of a crowd of 79,651. The LSU Tigers thus became the first team to win two BCS titles and the first to win a national championship with two losses (both in triple overtime to Kentucky and Arkansas).