Thaindian News

By Meena Kar
Dec 6, (THAINDIAN NEWS) The final Bowl Schedule has been decided according to the BCS Power ranking and the conveniences of the Bowl game committees. According to the schedule, the BCS bowl games would start from January 1. There are five BCS Bowl games and all of them have been scheduled for January.

Starting with the Rose Bowl on January 1, the match would take place between TCU vs. Wisconsin at 5:10 EST. Big 10 champion Wisconsin Badgers and TCU will meet at Pasadena. Although it is a big event the TCU has told several times, that they are disappointed as they missed the national title game by just an inch. According to them, rose Bowl is like a consolation Prize to them. The Rose Bowl would be immediately followed by the Fiesta Bowl, that has been scheduled on the same day at 8:30 EST. This Bowl would witness the clash between Connecticut vs. Oklahoma. This is the first time that the University of Connecticut would be participating in a Bowl Series and that too against Oklahoma. The Huskies won the bid to enter this Bowl after they defeated South Florida. Oklahoma Sooners also won over Nevada in the Big 12 title game to get the bid. Orange Bowl between Virginia Tech and Stanford will take place on January 3 at 8:30 EST. Although Orange Bowl had enough reasons to choose Connecticut, they opted for Stanford because, the latter consistently made a superior performance all through out the season, even though they raked below Connecticut. The Sugar Bowl would take place the next day, between Arkansas and Ohio State, at 8:30 EST.

Finally, the last and the most awaited event the BCS National Championship, has been saved for the last on January 10, 8:30 EST. It will be played between the two top rankers of the BCS standing, Auburn tigers and the Oregon Ducks. The winner of this final will become the national champions of the season.