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The 2009–10 NCAA football bowl games concluded the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season.It comprised 34 team-competitive bowl games, and three all-star games.The games began play on December 19, 2009 and included the 2010 BCS National Championship Game in Pasadena, California, played on January 7 at the Rose Bowl Stadium.
Nebraska met undefeated #3 Texas for the 2009 Big 12 Championship Game as heavy underdogs, as 63 of 64 media predictions recorded by one source predicted a Texas victory. Nebraska hoped to upset the Longhorns and earn a BCS bowl game berth. The Longhorns sought to stay unbeaten and earn an invitation to the 2010 BCS National Championship Game.
The Harris Poll and Coaches Poll are factors in the BCS standings. At the end of the season, on Sunday, December 6, 2009, the BCS standings determines who plays in the BCS bowl games as well as the 2010 BCS National Championship Game on January 7, 2010 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, CA.
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 ...
Alabama and Texas football have gone in opposite directions since BCS title game, but the reasons for those different paths are deeper than one game. Alabama, Texas took different paths after 2009 ...
After tabling a proposed eight-team playoff format in 2009, BCS commissioners announced in 2012 they had reached an agreement on a four-team playoff, which debuted in 2014.
NCAA bylaws say that a school with a record of 6–6 in regular season play and at least 5 wins over FBS teams are eligible only after conferences cannot fill out available positions for bowl games with teams having seven (or more) wins automatically eligible, excluding games played in Hawaii and conference championship games in the ACC, Big 12, Conference USA, MAC and the SEC.
He played collegiately at Golden West Community College before Oklahoma, where from 2006-08 he was a part of a Sooners team that won three Big 12 championships and appeared in the 2009 BCS ...