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Article #26: Orange Bowl Tickets Are For More Than Just A Football Game

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Orange Bowl tickets offer football fans season, and each of the four new "BCS
and travelers several options. Not only Bowls" agreed to host the new national
is the Orange Bowl one of the premier championship game on a rotating basis.
college bowl games every January, but the Therefore, every four years, Orange Bowl
game itself is located in one of the most tickets give fans the chance to watch the
exotic travel destinations in the United national championship decided on the
States - Miami and South Florida. Fans field. As of now, when the Orange Bowl is
and families alike have worked their not hosting the "big" game, they will
vacation and/or travel plans around this host the ACC champion after that
game, and a look at its history and other conference's recent additions.
attractions will explain why the Orange Overall Event
Bowl is always worth the effort to see. The Orange Bowl is much more than a
Game History football game. In fact, the game itself
The first Orange Bowl was played in 1935, is a culmination of a week-long
when Bucknell defeated Miami 26-0. For 33 celebration in Miami. There are parades,
years, the Orange Bowl was basically an parties, receptions, and even a
"at-large" bowl game, in that the bowl high-profile college basketball
committee chose the best two teams it tournament called the Orange Bowl
could attract. However, the Orange Bowl Classic. This year's tournament will
started its history of tie-ins in 1968 feature national champion Florida, and
when it began to host the champion of the the games are played in town.
former Big 8 Conference every season. Not to mention, there is an event even
This tie-in remained in place until the within the game itself that's as famous
late-1990's, when two things happened as the football battles that take place -
that change the landscape of the the Orange Bowl halftime show is perhaps
participants. The first was the formation the most famous halftime performance in
of the Big 12 Conference, as the Big 8 all of sports, and every year presents a
basically added four teams from Texas new and intriguing theme with stars of
after the now-defunct Southwestern music, sports and film making
Conference folded. This may or may not appearances. There are many attendees who
have had a direct effect on the teams are at the game specifically for the
invited, but another event in 1998 led to halftime show.
a shift in the game's participants. Overall, the Orange Bowl is a legendary
In 1998, the Bowl Championship Series event. The games are always battles
(BCS) was formed, and this changed the between two highly-ranked teams, and
alignment for all of the "major" bowl several national championships have been
games - the Orange Bowl, the Sugar Bowl, decided in Miami. However, Orange Bowl
the Fiesta Bowl and ultimately the Rose tickets also give fans the chance to see
Bowl. A system was put in place to much more than college football under the
manufacture an on-field championship game Florida sun in January.
between the two top-ranked teams every






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