2009-2010 NCAA football bowl games
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Bowl sites by state
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| Season | 2009 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Number of bowls | 34 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| All-star games | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowl games | December 19, 2009 – February 6, 2010 |
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| National Championship | 2010 Citi BCS National Championship | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rose Bowl Stadium, Pasadena, California |
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| Champions | Alabama Crimson Tide | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowl Challenge Cup winner | Mountain West Conference | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Bowl Record by Conference | |||
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| Conference | Bowls | Record | Final AP Poll |
| SEC | 10 | 6–4 (0.600) | 4 |
| Big 12 | 8 | 4–4 (0.500) | 3 |
| Big Ten | 7 | 4–3 (0.571) | 4 |
| ACC | 7 | 3–4 (0.429) | 4 |
| Pac-10 | 7 | 2–5 (0.286) | 2 |
| Big East | 6 | 4–2 (0.667) | 3 |
| Conference USA | 6 | 2–4 (0.333) | 0 |
| Mountain West | 5 | 4–1 (0.800) | 3 |
| MAC | 5 | 1–4 (0.200) | 1 |
| WAC | 4 | 2–2 (0.500) | 1 |
| Sun Belt | 2 | 1–1 (0.500) | 0 |
| Independents | 1 | 1–0 (1.000) | 0 |
The 2009–10 NCAA football bowl games concluded the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. It comprised 34 team-competitive bowl games, and three all-star games. The games began play on December 19, 2009 and included the 2010 BCS National Championship Game in Pasadena, California, played on January 7 at the Rose Bowl Stadium. The post-season concluded with three all-star games: the East–West Shrine Game on January 23, the Senior Bowl on January 30, and the Texas vs. The Nation Game on February 6.
A total of 34 postseason games were played.
NCAA by-laws state that a school with a record of 6–6 in regular season play is eligible only if conferences cannot fill out available positions for bowl games with teams possessing seven (or more) wins (excluding games played in Hawaii and conference championship games in the ACC, Big 12, Conference USA, Mid-American Conference and the SEC). An example was in 2008 when the Big Ten, the Big 12 and SEC each had two teams selected for the Bowl Championship Series games – Ohio State and Penn State from the Big Ten, Texas and Oklahoma from the Big 12 and Alabama and Florida from the SEC. With each conference sending two teams to the BCS, these three conferences forfeited several bowl game slots due to a lack of teams with a winning record.
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