bcs championship game schedule 2010
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In the current BCS format, four bowl games and the National Championship Game are considered “BCS bowl games.” The four bowl games are the Rose Bowl Game in Pasadena, California, the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans, the Fiesta Bowl in Glendale, Arizona, and the Orange Bowl in Miami Gardens, Florida. In the first eight seasons of the BCS contract, the championship game was rotated among the four bowls, with each bowl game hosting the national championship once every four years.
Starting with the 2007 BCS, the site of the game that served as the last game on January 1 (or if January 1 fell on a Sunday, January 2) in the BCS then served as the host facility of the new stand-alone BCS National Championship game played on January 8 of that year, one week following the playing of the traditional bowl game which would follow the Rose Bowl with the exception of the games to be played in 2010. There are also twenty-seven non-BCS bowls.
Initial plans were for the additional BCS bowl game to be held at the site of that year’s championship game, such that the additional, non-championship bowl be named after the original bowl (e.g. the Sugar Bowl when the championship is in New Orleans), and have the extra game just be called “The National Championship Game”. Later, the BCS considered having cities bid to be the permanent site of the new BCS game, and to place the new game in the title rotation. In the end, the BCS opted for its original plan.
bcs championship game schedule 2010 – The 2009-10 bowl schedule (all times Eastern):
| Bowl Game | Date/Time | Site | Matchup | Network |
| New Mexico | Dec. 19 2:30 p.m. |
Albuquerque, NM | Wyoming 35, Fresno State 28 | ESPN |
| St. Petersburg | Dec. 19 8 p.m. |
St. Petersburg, FL | Rutgers 45, UCF 24 | ESPN |
| R&L Carriers New Orleans | Dec. 20 8 p.m. |
New Orleans, LA | MTSU 42, Southern Miss 32 | ESPN |
| MAACO Las Vegas | Dec. 22 8 p.m. |
Las Vegas, NV | BYU 44, Oregon State 20 | ESPN |
| San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia | Dec. 23 8 p.m. |
San Diego, CA | Utah 37, California 27 | ESPN |
| Sheraton Hawaii | Dec. 24 8 p.m. |
Honolulu, HI | SMU 45, Nevada 10 | ESPN |
| Emerald | Dec. 26 8:30 p.m. |
San Francisco, CA | USC 24, Boston College 13 | ESPN |
| Meineke Car Care | Dec. 26 4 p.m. |
Charlotte, NC | Pittsburgh 19, North Carolina 17 | ESPN |
| Little Caesars | Dec. 26 1 p.m. |
Detroit, MI | Marshall 21, Ohio 17 | ESPN |
| Gaylord Hotels Music City | Dec. 27 8 p.m. |
Nashville, TN | Clemson 21, Kentucky 13 | ESPN |
| Independence | Dec. 28 5 p.m. |
Shreveport, LA | Georgia 44, Texas A&M 20 | ESPN |
| Champs Sports | Dec. 29 8 p.m. |
Orlando, FL | Wisconsin 20, Miami (FL) 14 | ESPN |
| EagleBank | Dec. 29 4:30 p.m. |
Washington, DC | UCLA 30, Temple 21 | ESPN |
| Pacific Life Holiday | Dec. 30 8 p.m. |
San Diego, CA | Nebraska 33, Arizona 0 | ESPN |
| Roady’s Humanitarian | Dec. 30 4:30 p.m. |
Boise, ID | Idaho 43, Bowling Green 42 | ESPN |
| Texas | Dec. 31 3:30 p.m. |
Houston, TX | Navy 35, Missouri 13 | ESPN |
| Bell Helicopter Armed Forces | Dec. 31 TBD |
Fort Worth, TX | Air Force 47, Houston 20 | ESPN |
| Brut Sun | Dec. 31 Noon |
El Paso, TX | Oklahoma 31, Stanford 27 | CBS |
| Insight | Dec. 31 5:30 p.m. |
Tempe, AZ | Iowa State 14, Minnesota 13 | NFL |
| Chick-fil-A | Dec. 31 7:30 p.m. |
Atlanta, GA | Virginia Tech 37, Tennessee 14 | ESPN |
| Outback | Jan. 1 11 a.m. |
Tampa, FL | Auburn 38, Northwestern 35 (OT) | ESPN |
| Capital One | Jan. 1 1 p.m. |
Orlando, FL | Penn State 19, LSU 17 | ABC |
| Konica Minolta Gator | Jan. 1 1 p.m. |
Jacksonville, FL | Florida State 33, West Virginia 21 | CBS |
| Rose presented by Citi | Jan. 1 5 p.m. |
Pasadena, CA | Ohio State 26, Oregon 17 | ABC |
| Allstate Sugar | Jan. 1 8:30 p.m. |
New Orleans, LA | Florida 51, Cincinnati 24 | FOX |
| AT&T Cotton | Jan. 2 2 p.m. |
Arlington, TX | Mississippi 21, Oklahoma State 7 | FOX |
| AutoZone Liberty | Jan. 2 5:30 p.m. |
Memphis, TN | Arkansas 20, East Carolina 17 (OT) | ESPN |
| International | Jan. 2 Noon |
Toronto, Canada | South Florida 27, Northern Illinois 3 | ESPN2 |
| Papajohns.com | Jan. 2 2 p.m. |
Birmingham, AL | Connecticut 20, South Carolina 7 | ESPN |
| Valero Alamo | Jan. 2 9 p.m. |
San Antonio, TX | Texas Tech 41, Michigan State 31 | ESPN |
| Tostitos Fiesta | Jan. 4 TBD |
Glendale, AZ | Boise State 17, TCU 10 | FOX |
| FedEx Orange | Jan. 5 8 p.m. |
Miami, FL | Iowa 24, Georgia Tech 14 | FOX |
| GMAC | Jan. 6 7 p.m. |
Mobile, AL | Central Michigan 44, Troy 41 (2 OT) | ESPN |
| Citi National Championship | Jan. 7 8 p.m. |
Pasadena, CA | Texas vs. Alabama | ABC |
