2010 Sugar Bowl

The 2010 Allstate Sugar Bowl was an American college football bowl game that was part of the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) for the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season and was the 76th Sugar Bowl. The contest was played on Friday, January 1, 2010, in the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana between the Florida Gators, who lost the 2009 SEC Championship Game and the Cincinnati Bearcats, winners of the Big East Conference. The Bearcats were coached by Offensive Coordinator Jeff Quinn on an interim basis after Head Coach Brian Kelly left Cincinnati to take the head coaching position at Notre Dame on December 10, 2009. This would be Quinn's only game as head coach for Cincinnati, as he had already accepted the head coaching position of the University of Buffalo's football team effective after the Sugar Bowl.

This was 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 was their first appearance in the Sugar Bowl and their second in a BCS bowl game. In the only previous matchup of these two teams, in 1984, the Gators defeated the Bearcats 48–17. Urban Meyer, the head coach of Florida in the 2010 Sugar Bowl, was a member of that Cincinnati team in 1984.^[2]

Florida Quarterback Tim Tebow broke two records for the Bowl Championship Series. He threw for a BCS record 482 passing yards and set another BCS record with 533 total yards.

Cincinnati Wide Receiver/Returner Mardy Gilyard also broke Sugar Bowl records for return yards in the game.

On December 26, 2009, Meyer announced that he would take a leave of absence as head coach after the Sugar Bowl due to health and family reasons.^[3]

Florida won the game by a score of 51 points to 24.^[4]

Scoring summary

Scoring Play	Score
1st Quarter
FLA — Tim Tebow 7-yard pass to Aaron Hernandez (Caleb Sturgis kick blocked), 6:13	FLA 6–0
FLA — Caleb Sturgis 40-yard field goal, 1:20	FLA 9–0
2nd Quarter
FLA — Tim Tebow 7-yard pass to Deonte Thompson (Caleb Sturgis kick), 9:07	FLA 16–0
FLA — Emmanuel Moody 6-yard run (Caleb Sturgis kick), 7:05	FLA 23–0
CIN — Jake Rogers 47-yard field goal, 3:11	FLA 23–3
FLA — Tim Tebow 80-yard pass to Riley Cooper (Caleb Sturgis kick), 3:02	FLA 30–3
3rd Quarter
FLA — Emmanuel Moody 2-yard run (Caleb Sturgis kick), 11:13	FLA 37–3
CIN — Marcus Waugh 2-yard pass from Tony Pike (Jake Rogers kick), 4:46	FLA 37–10
FLA — Tim Tebow 4-yard rush (Caleb Sturgis kick), 2:06	FLA 44–10
4th Quarter
CIN — Armon Binns 3-yard pass from Tony Pike (Jake Rogers kick), 10:07	FLA 44–17
FLA — Chris Rainey 6-yard rush (Caleb Sturgis kick), 7:05	FLA 51-17
CIN — Kazeem Alli 6-yard pass from Tony Pike (Jake Rogers kick), 3:43	FLA 51–24

References

↑ Jon Solomon, 2009-10 Bowl TV Ratings, The Birmingham News, January 13, 2010
↑ "Football Accepts Bid To Allstate Sugar Bowl". Archived from the original on 13 December 2009. Retrieved 22 December 2009.
↑ "UF's Urban Meyer Steps Down as Head Football Coach". Archived from the original on 2 January 2010. Retrieved 26 December 2009.
↑ "Tebow caps college career with 533 yards, Sugar Bowl romp". ESPN. 2010-01-01. Archived from the original on 5 January 2010. Retrieved 2010-01-06.

2009–10 NCAA football bowl game season

New Mexico (Dec. 19) St. Petersburg (Dec. 19) New Orleans (Dec. 20) Maaco Las Vegas (Dec. 22) Poinsettia (Dec. 23) Hawaii (Dec. 24) Little Caesars Pizza (Dec. 26) Meineke Car Care (Dec. 26) Emerald (Dec. 26) Music City (Dec. 27) Independence (Dec. 28) EagleBank (Dec. 29) Champs Sports (Dec. 29) Humanitarian (Dec. 30) Holiday (Dec. 30) Armed Forces (Dec. 31) Sun (Dec. 31) Texas (Dec. 31) Insight (Dec. 31) Chick-fil-A (Dec. 31) Outback (Jan. 1) Gator (Jan. 1) Capital One (Jan. 1) International (Jan. 2) Cotton (Jan. 2) PapaJohns.com (Jan. 2) Liberty (Jan. 2) Alamo (Jan. 2) GMAC (Jan. 6)

Bowl Championship Series games: Rose (Jan. 1) Sugar (Jan. 1) Fiesta (Jan. 4) Orange (Jan. 5) BCS National Championship (Jan. 7)

All-Star Games: East-West Shrine Game (Jan. 23) Senior Bowl (Jan. 30) Texas vs. The Nation Game (Feb. 6)

Sugar Bowl Game

History & conference tie-ins	History Tulane Stadium Georgia Dome Mercedes-Benz Superdome College Football Playoff Broadcasters Southeastern Conference Big 12 Conference

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Notes	The 2006 game took place in Atlanta, Georgia due to Hurricane Katrina. The game was also the national title game for either the Bowl Coalition, Bowl Alliance, or Bowl Championship Series in 1993, 1997, 2000, and 2004. There was a Sugar Bowl in January and December in 1972 and 1995. The game was a College Football Playoff semifinal in its 2015 edition.

Cincinnati Bearcats bowl games

1947 Sun Bowl 1949 Glass Bowl 1951 Sun Bowl 1997 Humanitarian Bowl 2000 Motor City Bowl 2001 Motor City Bowl 2002 New Orleans Bowl 2004 Fort Worth Bowl 2007 International Bowl 2007 PapaJohns.com Bowl 2009 Orange Bowl 2010 Sugar Bowl 2011 Liberty Bowl 2012 Belk Bowl 2013 Belk Bowl 2014 Military Bowl 2015 Hawaii Bowl

Florida Gators bowl games

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