2010 Sugar Bowl
The 2010 Sugar Bowl Game (known via sponsorship as the Allstate Sugar Bowl) is an American college football bowl game that is part of the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) for the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season, and will be the 76th Sugar Bowl. The contest will be played on Friday, January 1, 2010, in the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana between the Florida Gators, who were the Runner ups of the 2009 SEC Championship Game and the Cincinnati Bearcats, winners of the Big East Conference. The Bearcats will be coached by offensive coordinator Jeff Quinn on an interim basis after Brian Kelly accepted the head coaching position at Notre Dame on December 10, 2009.
This will be Florida's 8th trip to the Sugar Bowl, having gone 2-5 in their previous seven appearances, the last being a 37-20 loss to Miami in 2001. For Cincinnati this will be their first appearance in the Sugar Bowl and their second in a BCS bowl game. In the only matchup of these two teams in 1984, the Gators defeated the Bearcats 48-17. Urban Meyer, the current head coach of Florida, was a member of that Cincinnati team.[1]
On December 26, 2009, Florida coach Urban Meyer announced that he would resign as head coach due to health reasons.[2] Meyer will coach the Gators in the Sugar Bowl.
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