2009 Sun Bowl

2009 Brut Sun Bowl
76th Sun Bowl Game
Oklahoma Sooners Stanford Cardinal (7–5) (8–4) 31 27 Head coach:  Bob Stoops Head coach:  Jim Harbaugh AP Coaches BCS 19 21 21
1 2 3 4 Total Oklahoma 10 7 14 0 31 Stanford 7 17 0 3 27
Date	December 31, 2009
Season	2009
Stadium	Sun Bowl Stadium
Location	El Paso, Texas
MVP	Ryan Broyles
Referee	John ONeill (Big Ten)
Halftime show	David Archuleta
Attendance	53,713
Payout	US$1,900,000 per team
United States TV coverage
Network	CBS
Announcers	Craig Bolerjack Steve Beuerlein Sam Ryan
Nielsen ratings	3.3
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The 2009 Brut Sun Bowl game was the 76th edition of the annual college football bowl game known as the Sun Bowl. The Oklahoma Sooners defeated the Stanford Cardinal 31–27 on December 31, 2009. It was the two teams' fifth meeting. The game featured two conference tie-ins: the University of Oklahoma represented the Big 12 Conference and Stanford University represented the Pacific-10 Conference. The game was played at the Sun Bowl Stadium on the University of Texas at El Paso campus in El Paso, Texas.

The game featured Stanford's 13th-ranked offense including Toby Gerhart, a Heisman finalist who led the NCAA Division I FBS subdivision with 1,736 rushing yards and 26 touchdowns, against the seventh-ranked Oklahoma defense. The Stanford offense averaged over 440 yards per game while the Oklahoma defense had held its opponents to an average of 273 yards per game. This was the first time the two teams played each other in a bowl game. They had faced each other 4 previous times in the regular season with Oklahoma holding a 3–1 advantage. The last contest played by the schools was a 19–7 victory in Norman, Oklahoma by the Sooners in 1984.

By contract, the Sun Bowl Association—which produced the game—possessed the third pick from the Pacific-10 Conference. With that pick, the Sun Bowl selected Stanford over Oregon State, as both teams had been in a three-way tie for second place in the conference with Arizona (whom the Holiday Bowl selected with the second pick from the Pac-10).

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