2010 Champs Sports Bowl
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| Date | December 28, 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Citrus Bowl | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Orlando, Florida | ||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | QB Russell Wilson, NC State | ||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite | W. Virginia by 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | John O'Neill (Big Ten) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 48,962 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Payout | US$2.125 million per team | ||||||||||||||||||
| United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||
| Network | ESPN | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Joe Tessitore, Rod Gilmore and Rob Stone | ||||||||||||||||||
| Nielsen ratings | TBD | ||||||||||||||||||
The 2010 Champs Sports Bowl was a college football bowl game that was played on December 28, 2010. The game matched up the NC State Wolfpack from the Atlantic Coast Conference versus the West Virginia Mountaineers from the Big East Conference. The game was scheduled for a 6:30 p.m. ET kickoff at Florida Citrus Bowl Stadium, Orlando, Fla.
West Virginia entered the game with a 9-3 record along with being co-champions of the Big East Conference. The Mountaineers were hurt in their quest for the Big East's BCS bid with October losses to UConn and Syracuse. WVU's strength was in their defense, which ranked 2nd nationally in points allowed and 3rd in yards allowed. The Mountaineers have appeared in eight straight bowl games and were defeated in last year's Gator Bowl by Florida State 33-21. West Virginia has played in the bowl on two previous occasions, in 1995 and 1997, when it was known as the Carquest Bowl and was played in Miami.
NC State entered the bowl with an overall record of 8-4. The Wolfpack attempted to win a bowl game for the first time in coach Tom O’Brien’s four seasons in Raleigh. NC State played in the Papajohns.com Bowl in his second season but lost to Rutgers, 29-23. The strength of the Wolfpack was in their passing game, ranked number 19 in the country. NC State has appeared in the bowl three previous times, first in 1998 when the game was known as the MicornPC Bowl and was played in Miami, Florida, and then in 2001 and 2003 when it was played in Orlando but was called the Tangerine Bowl.
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