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2011 Orange Bowl

2011 Discover Orange Bowl
BCS Bowl Game
77th Orange Bowl
1 2 3 4 Total
Stanford 7 6 13 14 40
Virginia Tech 2 10 0 0 12
Date January 3, 2011
Season 2010
Stadium Sun Life Stadium
Location Miami Gardens, Florida
MVP Andrew Luck (QB, Stanford)
Favorite Stanford by 3 or 3.5
National anthem Little Big Town
Referee Tom Walker (Big 12 Conference)
Halftime show Goo Goo Dolls
Attendance 65,453
Payout US$21.2 million (per conference)
United States TV coverage
Network ESPN
Announcers Mike Tirico, Ron Jaworski, Jon Gruden and Michele Tafoya
Nielsen ratings 7.1 (10.7 million)
Orange Bowl
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The 2011 Discover Orange Bowl was a postseason college football bowl game between the Virginia Tech Hokies and the Stanford Cardinal on Monday, January 3, 2011, at Sun Life Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. Stanford defeated Virginia Tech 40–12. The game was part of the 2010–2011 Bowl Championship Series of the 2010 NCAA Division I FBS football season and was the concluding game of the season for both teams. The game, the 77th edition of the Orange Bowl, was televised in the United States on ESPN and the broadcast was seen by an estimated 8.23 million viewers.

Virginia Tech was selected to participate in the Orange Bowl after an 11–2 regular season that culminated with a 44–33 win in the 2010 ACC Championship Game. Stanford was picked as the other half of the matchup following an 11–1 campaign that included the school's best-ever regular-season record. That performance earned the Cardinal a No. 4 ranking in the BCS Poll and the automatic bid to a BCS game that accompanies a top-4 ranking of a second school in a conference other than the champion. In the weeks before that game, media attention focused on both teams' turnarounds from historical difficulties and the performance of Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck. The game also was the first Orange Bowl not sponsored by FedEx in 21 years, ending the longest-running title sponsorship deal among the major bowls.

The game kicked off at 8:39 pm in warm weather, and Stanford scored first, a touchdown, with its third offensive possession. Virginia Tech briefly took the lead with a safety followed by a touchdown of its own, but Stanford restored a 13–12 advantage before halftime. In the second half, Stanford pulled away from Virginia Tech as it scored 13 points in the third quarter and 14 in the fourth while holding the Hokies scoreless.


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