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Only four days more to go with the march! Just hold on. It'll be over soon enough.
Tonight is the Orange Bowl from Miami at 5:15 pm PT (or thereabouts). This game matches #5 Virginia Tech (11-2), the ACC Champion, and #8 Kansas (11-1), who didn't even win its own division in the Big XII.
Virginia Tech lost to LSU 48-7 and to Boston College 14-10, but then beat the Eagles in the ACC championship game to earn a trip to the Orange Bowl. Kansas went 11-0 and then lost to archrival Missouri 36-28 and ended up in the BCS more or less by default as bowls don't like to invite teams that lost their conference championship game.
The Hokies are 7-13 in bowl games and lost their only trip to the Orange Bowl back on New Year's Ever 1996 to Nebraska 41-21. Their last BCS appearance was in the 2005 Sugar Bowl, a 16-13 loss to Auburn.
Kansas is 4-6 in bowl games. The Jayhawks have played in the Orange Bowl twice and lost each time. Kansas lost to Georgia Tech in 1948, 20-14, and to Penn State, 15-14, in 1969.
This will be the first meeting between Kansas and Virginia Tech.
With this being the Orange Bowl, you are guaranteed a long halftime show that will likely be overdone.
The Big XII is 4-3 in bowl games this year. The ACC is 2-5.
Current ACC member Miami won a BCS game (over FSU) but they were in the Big East then as well.
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