2009 Champs Sports Bowl
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The 2009 Champs Sports Bowl
Champs Sports Bowl
The Champs Sports Bowl is an annual college football bowl game that is played in Orlando, Florida, at the Citrus Bowl. The bowl is operated by Florida Citrus Sports, a non-profit group which also organizes the Capital One Bowl and Florida Classic...

was a college football
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 bowl game
Bowl game
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 between the Wisconsin Badgers
2009 Wisconsin Badgers football team
The 2009 Wisconsin Badgers football team competed on behalf of the University of Wisconsin–Madison during the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Badgers were coached by Bret Bielema and played their home games at Camp Randall Stadium in Madison, Wisconsin...

 of the Big Ten Conference
Big Ten Conference
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 and the Miami Hurricanes
2009 Miami Hurricanes football team
The 2009 Miami Hurricanes football team represented the University of Miami during the 2009 Division I college football season. The Hurricanes were coached by Randy Shannon and played their home games at Land Shark Stadium...

 of the Atlantic Coast Conference
Atlantic Coast Conference
The Atlantic Coast Conference is a collegiate athletic league in the United States. Founded in 1953 in Greensboro, North Carolina, the ACC sanctions competition in twenty-five sports in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association for its twelve member universities...

. Played at the Citrus Bowl
Citrus Bowl
The Florida Citrus Bowl is a stadium in Orlando, Florida, USA, built for football, which currently seats around 70,000 people....

 in Orlando, Florida
Orlando, Florida
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, the game started at 8:00 PM US EST
North American Eastern Time Zone
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 on Tuesday, December 29, 2009
2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season
The 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season, or the college football season, began on September 2, 2009, progressed through the regular season and bowl season, and concluded with the Bowl Championship Series National Championship Game in Pasadena, California on January 7, 2010, featuring the...

 and was televised by ESPN
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. Wisconsin would win the game by a score of 20-14.

The 2009 game marked the last time in the foreseeable future that the Big 10
Big Ten Conference
The Big Ten Conference is the United States' oldest Division I college athletic conference. Its twelve member institutions are located primarily in the Midwestern United States, stretching from Nebraska in the west to Pennsylvania in the east...

 was represented in the bowl game. A four year contract was signed so that starting in 2010 the Big East
Big East Conference
The Big East Conference is a collegiate athletics conference consisting of sixteen universities in the eastern half of the United States. The conference's 17 members participate in 24 NCAA sports...

 will send a team to the bowl instead.

Miami made its third appearance in the bowl, they last played in the game in 1998 where they easily defeated 46–23. The Canes won their two previous appearances. Meanwhile, Wisconsin made its second appearance in as many years. They were defeated in the 2008 game
2008 Champs Sports Bowl
The 2008 Champs Sports Bowl was the 19th edition of the college football bowl game that was played on Saturday, December 27, 2008 at the Citrus Bowl in Orlando, Florida. The game, which had a 4:30 PM US EST kickoff and was broadcast on ESPN, pitted the Wisconsin Badgers against the Florida State...

 by Florida State
2008 Florida State Seminoles football team
The 2008 Florida State Seminoles football team represented Florida State University during the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Football Bowl Subdivision college football season. It was Florida State's 17th season as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference .The previous...

 42–13.

The bowl game marked the fourth time that the two schools have faced each other and the first time in the post-season. Miami previously held a 2–1 series advantage (now 2-2) with the last meeting being a 51–3 thrashing by the Hurricanes in opening game of the 1989 season
1989 NCAA Division I-A football season
The 1989 NCAA Division I-A football season ended with Miami winning its third National Championship during the 80s, cementing its claim as the decade's top team, winning more titles than any other program....

. Miami would go on to win their 3rd National Championship
National championship
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 that year.

Game summary

Wisconsin wore their home red jerseys, and Miami wore their away white jerseys.

Wisconsin sophomore
Sophomore
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 tailback
Tailback
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, John Clay
John Clay (running back)
John Clay is an American football running back. He currently plays for the Pittsburgh Steelers, practice squad, of the National Football League. He was signed by the Steelers as an undrafted free agent in 2011. He played college football for the University of Wisconsin–Madison football team...

 rushed for 121 yards and two touchdowns on his way to being named the bowl MVP. Quarterback
Quarterback
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 Scott Tolzien threw for 260 yards, and Montee Ball added 61 yards rushing for the Badgers, who defeated their first ranked opponent of the season and also reached the 10 win plateau for the first time since 2006. Miami quarterback Jacory Harris struggled for much of the game being sacked
Quarterback sack
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 5 times and knocked down on several other plays. Harris did finally find the endzone with 1:22 left in the game and finished with 188 yards passing.

The game displayed a sharp contrast in the locations of the two schools. Although played in the typical warm weather city of Orlando
Orlando, Florida
Orlando is a city in the central region of the U.S. state of Florida. It is the county seat of Orange County, and the center of the Greater Orlando metropolitan area. According to the 2010 US Census, the city had a population of 238,300, making Orlando the 79th largest city in the United States...

, the game time temperature was only about 40 degrees. Most Miami players wore long sleeves and would stand by heaters on the sidelines, however almost all Wisconsin players wore short sleeves and stated prior to the game that it felt like spring. The 56,747 fans in attendance was the highest total to ever watch a Champs Sports Bowl game since the game moved to Orlando in 2001. The attendance number also ranks second overall in bowl history as the only other game with more fans present was the inaugural Blockbuster Bowl in 1990 played between Florida State and Penn State in Miami.

Scoring summary

Scoring Play Score
1st Quarter
MIA — Graig Cooper
Graig Cooper
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 16 yard run (Matt Bosher kick), 14:37
MIA 7–0
WIS — John Clay
John Clay (running back)
John Clay is an American football running back. He currently plays for the Pittsburgh Steelers, practice squad, of the National Football League. He was signed by the Steelers as an undrafted free agent in 2011. He played college football for the University of Wisconsin–Madison football team...

 3 yard run (Philip Welch kick), 7:12
TIE 7–7
2nd Quarter
WIS — John Clay 3 yard run (Philip Welch kick), 8:07 WIS 14–7
WIS — Philip Welch 37 yard field goal, 0:12 WIS 17–7
3rd Quarter
None
4th Quarter
WIS — Philip Welch 28 yard field goal, 4:01 WIS 20-7
MIA — Thearon Collier 14 yard pass from Jacory Harris
Jacory Harris
Jacory Sherrod Harris is an American football quarterback, in very loose terms, who played for the University of Miami Hurricanes....

(Matt Bosher kick), 1:22
WIS 20-14


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