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2011 BCS Bowl Matchups
The 2011 BCS bowl matchups have been announced, with the long-awaited Auburn-Oregon BCS National Championship Game highlighting a slate of five marquee BCS bowl games.
The BCS will begin as it usually does, with the Rose Bowl on New Year’s Day, followed by the Fiesta Bowl that night.
The Fiesta Bowl and Sugar Bowl will played on January 3 and January 4 respectively, with the title game not coming our way until January 10th.
Represented are the champions of all six BCS conferences, the MWC conference, the Pac-10 runner up, the Big Ten runner up and one of two SEC teams to finish 10-2 but miss out on the opportunity to play in the SEC Championship Game.
Here is your official schedule:
Click bowl names for BCS Know How previews!
BCS National Championship Game
Glendale, Arizona. January 10th, 2011
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Auburn Tigers
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Oregon Ducks
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Comment: There were stumbles and potential pitfalls on the way, but ever since the initial unpredictability of the early part of the 2010 season, the Ducks and Tigers returned a sense of stability to the top of the rankings — and will meet in Glendale as the two best teams in the country.
The champions of the SEC and Pac-10 respectively, Auburn and Oregon have ruled atop the BCS rankings these past few weeks and put exclamations on their fantastic seasons with dominating performances on the final weekend of the year, and set up to potentially give us one of the most exciting BCS National Championship Games in memory.
Rose Bowl
Pasadena, California. January 1st, 2011
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Wisconsin Badgers |
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TCU Horned Frogs
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Comment: Two teams who have a legitimate claim at being the “hottest” team in the country as the season finishes will have to make do with an invitation to the most prestigious bowl on the BCS slate, the Rose Bowl.
Wisconsin gets to play in Pasadena on the strength of a Big Ten tiebreaker and a strong showing throughout the season, while TCU takes advantage of the much-discussed non-AQ clause in its first year and will join the Badgers on New Year’s Day.
Fiesta Bowl
Glendale, Arizona. January 1st, 2011
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Oklahoma Sooners
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Connecticut Huskies
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Comment: Few if any prognosticators saw Connecticut as a viable threat to make their way to a BCS bowl in the 2010 season, but here the Huskies are — champions of the Big East at 8-4 overall and headed to Glendale for the Fiesta Bowl.
Waiting for the Huskies will be the Oklahoma Sooners, who will fulfill the Big 12′s contract with the Fiesta Bowl as the conference champion. The Sooners will be looking to break a string of poor performances in BCS bowls following successful seasons and the Huskies will be their next opportunity to do so.
Orange Bowl
Miami, Florida. January 3rd, 2011
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Virginia Tech Hokies
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Stanford Cardinal
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Comment: South Beach, long the home of a January Orange Bowl between two East Coast teams will see a surprise visit from cross-country invaders Stanford, who automatically qualified for one of the four at-large BCS bowl bids on the strength of their No. 4 finish in the final BCS standings.
The Virginia Tech Hokies will be less of a surprise entrant here, playing in their third Orange Bowl in four years as the champion of the ACC and riding an 11-game winning streak into their bowl date with the Cardinal.
Sugar Bowl
New Orleans, Louisiana. January 4th, 2011
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Arkansas Razorbacks
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Ohio State Buckeyes
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Comment: Two teams looking on the outside of the automatic bowl bid picture had their lots picked up by the Sugar Bowl, as the New Orleans-based bowl selected a replacement SEC team — Arkansas — and a very attractive at-large opponent — Ohio State — to feature in their tradition-filled bowl.
Both teams finished just short of making runs at their respective conference crowns, but were well rewarded with a bid to the Sugar Bowl to play in a marquee Big Ten-SEC matchup.
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5 Comm
2010-12-05
22:06:18
The bowl scenario leaves out 4 of the top 12 teams in the BCS poll. So much for major conference tie ups. How do you leave out Mic State with 1 loss and you allow Conn in. How do you leave out Missouri, and LSU out and let VA Tech play when they lost to JMU , a FCS school . BBCS is really the pits this year.Only game worth watching is Auburn vs Oregon.Arkansas will get beat bad in the Sugar Bowl Oklahoma will put up 100 on CT and Stanford and VA Tech will draw about 200 people What a waste this bowl season will be.
2010-12-06
05:48:17
@ John Bauserman: What makes you think that Ohio State (a team with a lifetime Bowl-record of 0-9 against SEC opponents) will badly beat an Arkansas team that is probably only a couple of plays away from being in the National Championship game themselves?
2010-12-06
12:53:06
BCS concept really stinks, Big Ten should just do its own thing. It is a laugh with Connecticut at four losses ran out of town by Michigan playing Oklahoma while othe teams in the top 10 arent in? This is ridiculous.
2010-12-06
18:12:42
The match up between #7 Oklahoma and a unranked UConn in the 2011 Fiesta Bowl is a complete joke. Words can not describe how unhappy I am to have purchased a ticket to this game back in October. I fell like the BCS and those who let UConn into the game have ripped me off.
2011-01-03
07:27:47
FEAR THE FROG!!!!!