2010 BCS National Championship Game
The 2010 Citi BCS National Championship Game will be the finale of the Bowl Championship Series, pitting the Texas Longhorns against the Alabama Crimson Tide , and will be hosted by the Tournament of Roses Association at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, January 7, 2010. The game will kick off at 8:39PM EST.
This will be the last BCS game to air on terrestrial television for at least four years. ABC will televise this game, as well as the Rose Bowl, while FOX will televise the remainder of the BCS. The 2010 games mark the final year of the current contracts with FOX and ABC; ESPN will take over the BCS starting in 2011, including the Rose Bowl Game and the National Championship.[2]
This will mark the third time that the Tournament of Roses has hosted the BCS National Championship game in Pasadena, and the first under the "plus one national championship game" system. In the 2002 Rose Bowl, Miami (Florida) beat Nebraska 37-14, while in 2006, Texas beat highly favored and defending national champion Southern California, 41-38.
BCS season timeline
- Spring practice and games were started as early as Friday, February 20, 2009 and must end no later than Tuesday, April 28, 2009
- First games of the season were played on Thursday, September 3, 2009
- First Harris Poll was released on Sunday, September 27, 2009
- First BCS standings were posted on Sunday, October 18, 2009
- BCS Selection Sunday was on Sunday, December 6, 2009
Notes
- All tickets are priced at $275 each.[3]
- Both teams will be housed in hotels and practiced in Orange County.
References
- ^ 2010 Citi BCS National Championship Game FAQs, TournamentofRoses.com
- ^ Chris Dufresne, "Rose Bowl game moving to ESPN in 2011", Los Angeles Times, June 13, 2009
- ^ Tournament Events Tickets, Tournamentofroses.com