2008–09 NCAA football bowl games
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The 2008–09 NCAA football bowl games, which concluded the
A new record of 34 team-competitive bowls, plus three all-star games, were played, including the inaugural St. Petersburg Bowl and EagleBank Bowl. While bowl games had been the purview of only the very best teams for nearly a century, this was the third consecutive year that teams with non-winning seasons participated in bowl games. To fill the 68 available team-competitive bowl slots, a new record total of 9 teams (13% of all participants) with non-winning seasons participated in bowl games—all 9 had a .500 (6-6) season.
Selection of the teams
NCAA bylaws say that a school with a record of 6–6 in regular season play
.After the final regular-season games on December 7, 2008, four conferences — the Pac-10, the SEC, the Big 12, and the Big Ten — did not have enough teams to fill their
Results
NOTE: Rankings from final regular-season AP Poll of December 7, 2008.
Non-BCS bowl games
BCS bowl games
Date | Game | Site | Teams | Affiliations | Results |
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Jan. 1 | Rose Bowl | Rose Bowl Stadium Pasadena, California |
#5 USC (11–1) #6 Penn State (11–1) |
Pac-10 Big Ten |
USC 38 Penn State 24 |
Orange Bowl | Dolphin Stadium
Miami Gardens, Florida |
#21 Virginia Tech (9–4) #12 Cincinnati (11–2) |
ACC Big East |
Virginia Tech 20 Cincinnati 7 | |
Jan. 2 | Sugar Bowl | Louisiana Superdome
New Orleans |
#7 Utah (12-0) #4 Alabama (12-1) |
Mountain West SEC |
Utah 31 Alabama 17 |
Jan. 5 | Fiesta Bowl | University of Phoenix Stadium
Glendale, Arizona |
#3 Texas (11-1) (10-2)
#10 Ohio State |
Big 12 Big Ten |
Texas 24 Ohio State 21 |
Jan. 8 | BCS National Championship Game | Dolphin Stadium
Miami Gardens, Florida |
#1 Florida (12-1) #2 Oklahoma (12-1) |
SEC Big 12 |
Florida 24 Oklahoma 14 |
Conference bowl representation
Bowl Appearances | Final Rankings | |||||||||
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Conference | No. of Teams | Record | Pct. | Winners | Losers | Ranked Teams |
Team | AP (1/9/09) |
Coaches (1/9/09) |
BCS (12/7/08) |
Pac-10 | 5 | 5–0 | 1.000 | USC Oregon Oregon State California Arizona |
4 | USC | #3(1) | #2 | #5 | |
Oregon | #10 | #9 | #17 | |||||||
Oregon State | #18 | #19 | NR | |||||||
California | NR | #25 | NR | |||||||
Winners of 2008–09 Bowl Challenge Cup with perfect record. | ||||||||||
SEC | 8 | 6–2 | 0.750 | Florida Georgia Ole Miss Vanderbilt LSU Kentucky |
Alabama South Carolina |
4 | Florida | #1(48) | #1(60) | #2 |
Alabama | #6 | #6 | #4 | |||||||
Georgia | #13 | #10 | #15 | |||||||
Ole Miss | #14 | #15 | #25 | |||||||
Florida won the National Championship. Vanderbilt won in a bowl for the first time since 1955. Kentucky won a bowl for the third straight season, a first in school history. | ||||||||||
Big East | 6 | 4–2 | 0.667 | West Virginia South Florida Rutgers Connecticut |
Cincinnati Pittsburgh |
3 | Cincinnati | #17 | #17 | #12 |
West Virginia | #23 | NR | NR | |||||||
Pittsburgh | NR | NR | #20 | |||||||
Both of the Big East's BCS-ranked teams lost their games. | ||||||||||
Big 12 | 7 | 4–3 | 0.571 | Texas Missouri Kansas Nebraska |
Oklahoma Texas Tech Oklahoma State |
5 | Texas | #4 | #3 | #3 |
Oklahoma | #5 | #6 | #1 | |||||||
Texas Tech | #12 | #12 | #7 | |||||||
Oklahoma State | #16 | #18 | #13 | |||||||
Missouri | #19 | #16 | #21 | |||||||
Conference USA | 6 | 4–2 | 0.667 | Southern Mississippi Rice Houston Tulsa |
Memphis East Carolina |
0 | none | |||
Rice ended a 54-year winless streak in bowls, Houston ended theirs at 28. | ||||||||||
Mountain West | 5 | 3–2 | 0.600 | Utah TCU Colorado State |
Brigham Young Air Force |
3 | Utah | #2(16) | #4(1) | #6 |
TCU | #7 | #7 | #11 | |||||||
Brigham Young | #25 | #21 | #16 | |||||||
Utes became first BCS outsider to win two BCS games; their other was the 2005 Fiesta Bowl. The Utes also won their eighth straight bowl game. | ||||||||||
Independents | 2 | 1–1 | 0.500 | Notre Dame | Navy | 0 | none | |||
Notre Dame won first bowl game since 1994 Cotton Bowl Classic. | ||||||||||
Sun Belt | 2 | 1–1 | 0.500 | Florida Atlantic | Troy | 0 | none | |||
Only conference ineligible for 2008–09 Bowl Challenge Cup. | ||||||||||
ACC | 10 | 4–6 | 0.400 | Virginia Tech Florida State Maryland Wake Forest |
Georgia Tech Boston College North Carolina Miami (FL) NC State Clemson |
4 | Virginia Tech | #15 | #14 | #19 |
Georgia Tech | #22 | #22 | #14 | |||||||
Florida State | #21 | #23 | NR | |||||||
Boston College | NR | NR | #24 | |||||||
The ACC's ten teams in postseason is a new NCAA record. Boston College's streak of bowl wins in eight consecutive seasons ended. | ||||||||||
Western Athletic | 5 | 1–4 | 0.200 | Louisiana Tech | Boise State Fresno State Hawaiʻi Nevada |
1 | Boise State | #11 | #13 | #9 |
Big Ten | 7 | 1–6 | 0.143 | Iowa | Penn State Ohio State Michigan State Northwestern Minnesota Wisconsin |
5 | Penn State | #8 | #8 | #8 |
Ohio State | #9 | #11 | #10 | |||||||
Iowa | #20 | #20 | NR | |||||||
Michigan State | #24 | #24 | #18 | |||||||
Northwestern | NR | #NR | #23 | |||||||
Iowa's win in Outback Bowl avoided a total shutout. | ||||||||||
Mid-American | 5 | 0–5 | 0.000 | Ball State Central Michigan NIU Western Michigan Buffalo |
1 | Ball State | NR | NR | #22 | |
Only winless conference in bowl season. |
NOTE: BCS bowl participants are listed in italics.
Post-BCS All-Star Games
All-Star Game | Date | Location | Television | Result | Ref. |
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East–West Shrine Game | January 17, 2009 | Robertson Stadium University of Houston Houston, Texas |
ESPN2 | East 24, West 19 | [2] |
Senior Bowl | January 24, 2009 | Ladd–Peebles Stadium Mobile, Alabama |
NFL Network | South 35, North 18 | [3][4] |
Texas vs The Nation | January 31, 2009 | CBS College Sports Network
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The Nation 27, Texas 24 | [5] |
References
- ^ "Unbeaten Boise State heads Poinsettia; ACC slots 10". The Sporting News. The Sporting News. December 7, 2008. Retrieved December 8, 2008.[permanent dead link]
- ^ http://www.shrinegame.com/press_release/84_game/EWSG_Player_Alert_12-3-08.pdf[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). www.seniorbowl.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 3, 2009. Retrieved January 17, 2022.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Official Website of the Senior Bowl". Archived from the original on December 22, 2008. Retrieved January 1, 2009.
- ^ "Texas vs. The Nation". Archived from the original on December 20, 2008. Retrieved January 1, 2009.