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The 2008–09 NCAA football bowl games, which concluded the 2008 NCAA Division I FBS football season, contained a record number of bowl games scheduled in college football history. A total of 37 bowl games, 34 team-competitive games and three all-star games, were played starting on December 20, 2008, with four contests and concluding with the ...
College recruiting information (2009) Name Hometown High school / college Height Weight 40 ‡ Commit date Jimmy Booth DT: Greenville, North Carolina J.H. Rose High School 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) 288 lb (131 kg) Jul 22, 2008 Star ratings: Scout: Rivals: 247Sports: N/A ESPN grade: 40 Michael Brooks DT: Yanceyville, North Carolina
The game started at 2:30 pm US CST (2030 UTC) on Wednesday, December 31, 2008. The game, telecast on ESPN, pitted the Boston College Eagles against the Vanderbilt Commodores. [3] The Commodores, playing near their Nashville campus, won 16–14, earned their first bowl win in exactly 53 years, and completed their first winning season since 1982. [4]
This was Nebraska first trip to the Big 12 title game since 2006 and fifth time in the league's 14 years. 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 UCLA Bruins (6–6) played the Temple Owls (9–3) at the 2009 EagleBank Bowl at RFK Memorial Stadium in Washington, D.C. The bowl game was scheduled to start at 4:30 PM US EST on Tuesday, December 29, 2009. Temple was playing in its first bowl game since the 1979 Garden State Bowl and made only its third bowl appearance in school history. [16]
The regular season began on August 28, 2008, and ended on December 6, 2008. The postseason concluded on January 8, 2009, with the BCS National Championship Game in Miami Gardens, Florida , which featured the top two teams ranked by the Bowl Championship Series (BCS): the No. 2 Florida Gators (No. 1 in the AP Poll ) and No. 1 Oklahoma Sooners ...
The 20th-ranked Cowboys face the Aggies at 8 p.m. Wednesday in the Texas Bowl at NRG Stadium in a bowl rematch from 2019. Here is what you need to know about the game:
It was the first time in school history that Tech won bowl games in consecutive years. [92] Tennessee's loss dropped it to 7–6, and the Volunteers remained unranked in the final college football polls of the year. Virginia Tech was credited for its bowl-game win and rose to 10th in both the Associated Press and coaches' polls. [97]