Since 2007, the Orange Bowl has also become known as “Home of the ACC Champion”. This is due to the BCS agreeing to send the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) champion to Miami each year to face a highly ranked at-large team. The 2009 pairing included the Big East Conference Champion Cincinnati Bearcats against and the ACC Conference Champion Virginia Tech Hokies, and resulted with the Hokies leaving Miami as 20-7 victors. With three ACC teams remaining in the top 25 BCS rankings, chances are that the eventual conference champ will continue the tradition of making the Orange Bowl one of the most talked about games across the country.

Behind only the Rose Bowl, the Sun Bowl, and the Sugar Bowl, the Orange Bowl is the fourth-oldest bowl game in history, and also a member of the Bowl Championship Series. With crowds averaging in excess of 75,000 each year during the past decade, the FedEx Orange Bowl is undoubtedly one of college football’s most popular postseason games, and 2010 should be no different.

The Bowl Championship Series (BCS) is a five-game series of college football bowl games, created with the intention of matching the #1 and #2 ranked teams in a game to determine the National Championship, while providing four other exciting games amongst eight of the other most highly ranked teams in college football that season. The five BCS bowl games are the Fiesta Bowl, the Orange Bowl, the Rose Bowl, the Sugar Bowl, and the BCS National Championship Game which is alternated among the different BCS bowl sites each year.

The Orange Bowl has previously played host to the BCS National Championship Game in 2001 and 2005. However, since 2007, with the BCS National Championship Game having become a stand-alone event, taking place at one of the rotating BCS bowl sites one week following New Year's Day bowl games, the Orange Bowl Committee found itself hosting two games in 2009 – the traditional Orange Bowl on January 1, and then the BCS National Championship Game on January 8, both at Miami’s LandShark Stadium.

There are not too many better winter destinations than Miami for a college bowl game to take place, so don’t you think it’s time to get your BCS tickets and make plans to attend the FedEx Orange Bowl on January 5, 2010?