2010 Chick-fil-A Bowl

The 2010 Chick-fil-A Bowl is the forty-third edition of the college football bowl game, and was played at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia. It was played Friday, December 31, 2010 at 7:30 EST, and featured the #23 Florida State Seminoles versus the #19 South Carolina Gamecocks.^[3]

Teams

South Carolina

The SEC Eastern Division Champion South Carolina Gamecocks appeared in the Chick-fil-A Bowl. The Gamecocks also entered the game with an impressive 9-4 record after a 7-6 season in 2009. South Carolina has some of the finest young talent in the SEC in freshman running back Marcus Lattimore and sophomore receiver Alshon Jeffery. They also made their first appearance in the Chick-fil-A Bowl, although they do have one Peach Bowl appearance: a 14-3 loss to West Virginiain 1969.

Florida State

The ACC Atlantic Division Champion Florida State Seminoles came into the game with a 9-4 record in coach Jimbo Fisher's first season. The strength of the Seminoles this season has been their defense, which ranks No. 2 in the nation in sacks and No. 17 in tackles for loss. Florida State's appearance in the Chick-fil-A Bowl marks a continuance of their streak of active consecutive bowl games to twenty nine. Although FSU has never appeared in the Chick-fil-A Bowl under its current name, it has appeared in two games when it was known as the Peach Bowl, losing the inaugural game in 1968 and winning it in 1983.

Like South Carolina, Florida State has been a member of its current conference since 1992.

Game summary

Scoring summary

Scoring play	Score
1st quarter
FSU - D. Hopkins 29-yard field goal, 8:08	FSU 3 - 0
FSU - Hopkins 48-yard field goal, 02:42	FSU 6 - 0
2nd quarter
FSU - C. Thompson 27-yd run (Hopkins kick), 01:02	FSU 13–0
SC - Spencer Lanning 40-yd field goal, 00:00	FSU 13–3
3rd quarter
FSU - Hopkins 35-yd field goal, 10:38	FSU 16–3
SC - Stephen Garcia 3-yd pass from Ace Sanders (Lanning kick), 03:49	FSU 16–10
FSU - Hopkins 45-yd field goal, 00:09	FSU 19–10
4th quarter
SC - Brian Maddox 7-yd run (Spencer Lanning kick), 11:56	FSU 19–17
FSU - T. Easterling 7-yard pass from Manuel, E. J. (Hopkins kick), 05:27	FSU 26-17

Statistics

Statistics	SC	FSU
First Downs	22	18
Total offense, plays - yards	414	308
Rushes-yards (net)	32-139	45-218
Passing yards (net)	275	90
Passes, Comp-Att-Int	36-21-3	21-12-1
Time of Possession	26:32	33:28

Game Notes

Manuel with Florida State University

Florida State QB Christian Ponder had left the game in the second quarter with a concussion, E.J Manuel had taken over the Florida State offense. E.J completed 11 to 15 passes for 84 yards and a touchdown and had seven carries for 46 yards. He was 7-for-7 passing on the fourth-quarter touchdown drive led the Seminoles to 26-17 win. After the game Florida State Coach Jimbo Fisher said "I hate it for Christian, he got dinged on the back of his head. He came off and he was kind of out of it a little bit. I hate that because of what he means to us but EJ, oh boy, I'm glad he's on our team." "E.J. is special." ^[4]

The two schools had met 18 prior times with Florida State holding a commanding 15-3 advantage in the series. The last meeting was a 38-10 FSU victory in 1991. This was the first time the programs had met in a bowl game.

References

↑ The Tuscaloosa News, December 18, 2010
↑ http://www.chick-fil-abowl.com/PressBox/BowlHistory.aspx
↑ Chick-fil-A Bowl Selects No. 19 South Carolina to Meet No. 23 Florida State in Prime Time on New Year’s Eve
↑ ESPN Interview with Florida State Coach Jimbo Fisher. "Coach Fisher Interview" Retrieved February 25, 2016

2010–11 NCAA football bowl game season

New Mexico (Dec. 18) Humanitarian (Dec. 18) New Orleans (Dec. 18) Beef 'O' Brady's (Dec. 21) Maaco Las Vegas (Dec. 22) Poinsettia (Dec. 23) Hawaii (Dec. 24) Little Caesars Pizza (Dec. 26) Independence (Dec. 27) Champs Sports (Dec. 28) Insight (Dec. 28) Military (Dec. 29) Texas (Dec. 29) Alamo (Dec. 29) Armed Forces (Dec. 30) Pinstripe (Dec. 30) Music City (Dec. 30) Holiday (Dec. 30) Meineke Car Care (Dec. 31) Sun (Dec. 31) Liberty (Dec. 31) Chick-fil-A (Dec. 31) TicketCity (Jan. 1) Outback (Jan. 1) Capital One (Jan. 1) Gator (Jan. 1) GoDaddy.com Bowl (Jan. 6) Cotton (Jan. 7) BBVA Compass (Jan. 8) Kraft Fight Hunger (Jan. 9)

Bowl Championship Series games: Rose (Jan. 1) Fiesta (Jan. 1) Orange (Jan. 3) Sugar (Jan. 4) BCS National Championship (Jan.10)

All-Star Games: East–West Shrine Game (Jan. 22) Eastham Energy All-Star Game (Jan. 23) Senior Bowl (Jan. 29) Texas vs The Nation (Feb. 5) Dixie Gridiron Classic (Feb. 5)

Peach Bowl Game

History & conference tie-ins	History Bobby Dodd Stadium Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium Georgia Dome Mercedes-Benz Stadium College Football Playoff Broadcasters College Football Playoff At-Large Group of Five

Games	1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1981 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1988 1988 1989 1990 1992 1993 1993 1995 1995 1996 1998 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2004 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Notes	There was a Peach Bowl in January and December in 1981, 1988, 1993, 1995, 1998, and 2004. There was no Peach Bowl in 1980, 1987, 1991, 1994, 1997, and 2003. The 2016 edition will be a College Football Playoff semifinal.

South Carolina Gamecocks bowl games

Florida State Seminoles bowl games

Pound sign (#) denotes national championship game.

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