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The game was the last BCS Championship to air on Fox; starting with the 2010 game, ABC or ESPN televised the championship. Tim Tebow's two touchdown passes and Percy Harvin's two-yard touchdown run led the Florida Gators to their second BCS National Championship in three seasons. The Gators defeated the Oklahoma Sooners, 24–14, in front of a ...
The game featured No. 1 Oklahoma and No. 2 Florida State. The teams had previously met four times, with Oklahoma holding a 3–1 edge. Their most recent meeting had been in the 1981 Orange Bowl , which was won by Oklahoma, 18–17.
The 1980 Orange Bowl was the 46th edition of the college football bowl game, played at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida, on Tuesday, January 1. Part of the 1979–80 bowl game season, it matched the fourth-ranked independent Florida State Seminoles and the #5 Oklahoma Sooners of the Big Eight Conference. Favored Oklahoma overcame an early ...
Oklahoma is one of only two schools to have appeared in all five of the BCS era bowl games (2001 Orange, 2003 Rose, 2004 Sugar, 2007 Fiesta, 2009 BCS NCG), with the other being Ohio State. [3] Oklahoma's bowl game participation and victories rank among the top of FBS bowl records .
The 1981 Orange Bowl was the 47th edition of the college football bowl game, played at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida, on Thursday, January 1.Part of the 1980–81 bowl game season, it matched the fourth-ranked Oklahoma Sooners of the Big Eight Conference and the independent #2 Florida State Seminoles.
The Seminoles won the national title in 2018 and lost to Oklahoma in the championship series in 2021 and 2023. That's why Gasso expects Florida State to play better on Friday in Game 2.
No. 6 Oklahoma will face off against No. 7 Florida in what is expected to be a high-scoring affair. The Sooners took down Iowa State to win the Big 12 title game last weekend.
The 1988 Orange Bowl was the 54th edition of the college football bowl game, played at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida, on Friday, January 1.Part of the 1987–88 bowl game season, it matched undefeated teams: the independent and second-ranked Miami Hurricanes and the #1 Oklahoma Sooners of the Big Eight Conference.