No. 1 Notre Dame and No. 2 Ala-bama will meet in the 2013 Dis-cover BCS National Champion-

ship Game on Monday, January 7, 2013 at Sun Life Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla. Kickoff is slated for 8 p.m.

Both teams enter the BCS National Champi-onship Game leading the nation in total defense. Notre Dame finished the regular season with the top-ranked defense, allowing 10.3 points per

game, while Alabama finished second allowing 10.7 points per

game. On the offensive side of the ball, both teams average over 200 yards per game rushing.

Notre Dame (12-0) is making its first appearance in the BCS Na-tional Championship game. The Fighting Irish finished the regular season undefeated for the first time since 1988, the last time they won a National Championship. Notre Dame is making its fourth BCS appearance, but its first in the BCS National Championship Game. The Fighting Irish have played in five games hosted

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A Game for the Ages: Notre Dame vs. AlabamaBy Noah Sharfman

The 19th Annual MetroPCS Orange

Bowl Basketball Classic Kicks OffBy Noah Sharfman

The annual MetroPCS Orange Bowl Basketball Classic will again feature a top-tier doubleheader for the 19th edition of the Classic. Billy Dono-van’s Florida Gators, fresh off an Elite Eight run in last season’s NCAA Tournament will face the Air Force Falcons while the defending ACC Champion Florida State Seminoles under head coach Leonard Hamilton will take on the Tulsa Golden Hurricane led by first-time head coach Danny Manning. The 2012 MetroPCS Orange Bowl Basketball Classic will be held on December 29th at the BB&T Center in Sunrise, FL.

The Florida Gators will be making their 14th appearance in the Classic and are led by South Florida native Kenny Boynton. The American Heritage (Plantation) prep star led the Gators in scoring last season (15.9 ppg) and was named the MVP of the 2011 MetroPCS Orange Bowl Basketball Classic as he led the Gators to a 84-64 victory over Texas A&M. Boynton and the Ga-tors finished last season with a 26-11 record that included an Elite Eight appearance.

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Two conference champions, No. 12 Florida State and No. 15 Northern Illinois will meet in the 79th Discover Orange Bowl on Tuesday, January 1, 2013 at Sun Life Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla..

Northern Illinois is among the hottest teams in the country, riding a 12 game winning streak which is tied for the longest active wining steak in the nation (Notre Dame and Ohio State are the oth-ers). The Huskies are one of three teams to have won their confer-ence outright the last two years

(Wisconsin and Arkansas State are the others). Florida State finished the regular season ranked second in total defense and seventh in total de-fense, and has held oppo-nents to under 10 points five times this season. Northern Illinois ranks ninth in scoring offense and rushing offense.

No. 12 Florida State (11-2, 7-1 ACC) earned the ACC’s automatic berth in the Discover Orange Bowl by virtue of its 21-

15 victory over Georgia Tech in the eighth annual Dr Pepper ACC Championship Game at Bank of America Stadium

Conference Champs Clash: Northern Illinois vs. Florida StateBy Ryan Trapp

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Manti Te’o will have his shot at A.J. McCarron in the BCS National Championship.

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Jordan Lynch will try and take on Bjoern Werner and the Seminole defense in the Orange Bowl.

MetroPCS, an associate sponsor of the Orange Bowl Youth Football Al-liance, believes that when it comes to youth sports, moms rule. This year marks a decade of honoring team mothers through the MetroPCS Most Valuable Team Mom program.

“We know moms are a big part of why youth teams succeed and ap-

preciate those who understand the importance of staying active by sup-porting the boys and girls who play,” says Mike Ward, vice-president and general manager of MetroPCS South Florida. “We are thrilled to con-tinue working with the Orange Bowl Youth Football Alliance and have this opportunity to shine a spotlight on hard-working parents with our

unlimited service.”

Team moms are the backbone of youth teams and their work isn’t often seen amidst the games and practices. These are women who put in long hours both day and night by organizing car pools and snacks, not to mention being the team’s most-spirited cheerleaders. The candidates for the Most Valuable Team Moms program are nominated by their teams, coaches and fans for all of their efforts that contribute to the success of the team. Nine women, one from each of the Orange Bowl Youth Football Alliance leagues, are honored.

All the winners will be recognized during a halftime presentation at the MetroPCS Orange Basketball Classic on Saturday, December 29,

at the BB&T Center in Sunrise, FL. The winners will receive tickets to the Basketball Classic, as well as a MetroPCS cellular phone and six months of free service. MetroPCS and the Orange Bowl Youth Foot-ball Alliance congratulates all of the nominees for this year’s Team Mom program and thanks them for their dedication and support.

Sponsor Spotlight: MetroPCSHonoring Some Most Valuable Moms

Each year, the Orange Bowl pro-vides local youth and members of our military the opportunity to attend the MetroPCS Orange Bowl Basketball Classic through our MetroPCS Orange Bowl Big Buddy Program and our Orange Bowl Patriot Program. With the help of MetroPCS, Sunshine State Health Plan and other sponsors, corpora-tions and individuals, this program

sends deserving youth and military personnel that would otherwise not have the opportunity to experience a collegiate basketball game to the MetroPCS Orange Bowl Basketball Classic.

Those in attendance this year will be recognized during halftime of the day’s first game between Florida State and Tulsa.

Big Buddy/Patriot Program

OBIE with some Big Buddy participants during the 2011 Classic.

The MetroPCS team set up at the 2010 Orange Bowl Basketball Classic.

Two cheerleaders enjoying MetroPCS promotional giveaways at the 2011 OBY-FA Cheer and Dance Competition.

The MetroPCS Android hanging with OBIE prior to the 2011 MetroPCS Basketball Classic.

scorers Michael Lyons (15.6 ppg) and Mike Fitzgerald (10.4 ppg). Head Coach Dave Pili-povich enters his first full season as head coach after being named to the position on March 3, 2012. The Falcons, who are making their MetroPCS

Orange Bowl Basketball Classic debut, posted a 10-5 non-conference record last season.

Florida State, making their fourth Classic appear-ance, enters the 2012-13 season as the defending ACC Champions. The Seminoles return four of their top five scorers from last season, including leading scorer Michael Snaer (14.0 ppg) and third leading scorer Ian Miller (10.3 ppg). Led by Head Coach Leonard Hamilton, Florida State finished

last season with a 25-10 record as Hamilton was named ACC Coach of the Year for the second time in the past four seasons.

Tulsa is led by first time head coach Danny Man-ning. One of college basketball’s all-time greats, Manning was named head coach on March 29, 2012 after spending the previous nine seasons as an assistant coach at the University of Kansas, Tulsa finished last season with a 17-14 record and is making its MetroPCS Orange Bowl Basketball Classic debut. The Hurricane returns its second leading scorer in Scottie Haralson (11.1 ppg) and assist leader Tim Peete (5.3 ppg, 2.2 apg).

With assistance from title sponsor MetroPCS and associate sponsors American Airlines, BB&T Center, Deloitte LLC, FOX Sports Florida / Sun Sports, Panera Bread, Reese’s, Sports Authority, Sunshine State Health Plan and the Miami Her-ald, the Orange Bowl Basketball Classic will be the only Division I basketball played in Broward County again this season.

Youth Stars Clash for OBYFA ChampionshipsBy Ryan Trapp

After another entertaining and competitive season, the Orange Bowl will proudly host the 2012 Orange Bowl Youth Football (Or-ange Bowl YFA) Championships presented by Sports Authority.

A total of 24 teams from 12 different weight classes will meet for a weekend full of youth football and fun on December 8th and 9th at Florida International University’s Alfonso field.

Saturday’s action will feature our youth foot-ball All-Stars from the Dick Conley Memorial Football League, Key West Junior Football League, Palm Beach County Youth Football League, West Boca Tackle Football, West Boynton Football League and Western Com-munities Football League.

On Sunday, teams from Miami Extreme Youth Football League, National Youth Foot-ball League and Glades Tri-City Youth Ath-letic League will go head to head for youth championships glory.

Now in its 14th season, the Orange Bowl YFA presented by Sports Authority serves more than 16,000 young football players and cheerleaders in nine youth football leagues spread out across South Florida, from Lake Okeechobee to Key West. Since 1999, the Orange Bowl has invested approximately $5 million in youth sports in South Florida.

The Orange Bowl YFA is presented by Sports Authority, with additional sponsors Ameri-can Airlines, Doctors Hospital, Florida Blue, Frito-Lay, Fox Sports Florida / Sun Sports,

Hampton Farms, Marathon Petroleum, Urbieta Oil Co., MetroPCS, Nike, POW-ERADE, Sun Life Stadium & The Miami Dolphins, The Miami Herald, Toyota, Spar-kling ICE and Wells Fargo.

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Nov. 25 Orange Bowl Cheer & Dance Championships BankUnited CenterDec. 3-9 Dunlop Orange Bowl International Tennis Championships Frank Veltri Tennis CenterDec. 5 Orange Bowl Kickoff Party Seminole Hard Rock HotelDec. 8-9 Orange Bowl Youth Football Alliance Championships FIU StadiumDec. 26-30 Orange Bowl International Youth Regatta Coral Reef Yacht ClubDec. 29 MetroPCS Orange Bowl Basketball Classic BB&T CenterDec. 30 Junior Orange Bowl Festival Parade Multiple LocationsJan. 1 2013 Discover Orange Bowl Sun Life StadiumJan. 3 10th Annual Orange Bowl Swim Classic Jacobs Aquatics CenterJan. 7 2013 Discover BCS National Championship Game Sun Life StadiumJan. 12 Orange Bowl Paddle Championships Bayside Marketplac MarinaMar. 9 Orange Bowl Lacrosse Classic Sun Life Stadium

Kenny Boynton has a chance to win his third straight Orange Bowl Classic MVP.

The PBCYFL All-Stars (85 lbs.) earned a 18-9 victory over the WCFL All-Stars during last years Championships.

Hayley: How did you become in-volved with the Orange Bowl?

Andrew: I first knew about the Orange Bowl when I was young and we would go to the game every year, and my father got involved when I was 13. I started working [at the Or-ange Bowl] during winter break in college, so for all four years of col-lege I really got to see how it worked and how involved everything was. I knew that it was something I wanted to do, so [over my career] I made sure I put myself in positions where community involvement was very important, with the ultimate goal to be wearing the orange jacket.

This college football season has been really exciting, what’s been your favorite part of it so far?

College football is so unpredictable. As soon as you think you know with certainty what’s going to happen, something is going to screw that up. But the best part is when you look at it all, whether it’s the Alabama loss to Texas A&M or any of the other mild upsets that are out there, at the end of the season the top two

teams are usually the best two teams.I’m sure you’re excited about the double hosting this year. What’s it like for the committee to put that on?It’s a different experience here for the championship game because it’s not necessarily as festive, it’s not as light hearted. It’s a business trip for them, a very hardworking trip, but at the same time they get the flavor of South Florida, they get to under-

stand what makes the Orange Bowl so special. We get to show our best side at all times.

This will be the 20th national championship in South Florida. What does that do for the community?Orange Bowl first and foremost, started out as a tourism engine. The most important part of Orange Bowl was bringing people down here to experience the beautiful win-ters we have here. You walk around town and you see everyone with their sweatshirts and their colors, but there’s not really that home-town collegiate atmosphere. As much as we love the Hurricanes and the Panthers, it’s not a college town. But for that [Champion-ship] week, when we have the influx of Nebraska or Alabama or whoever is coming it, it becomes their small college town for a week.

The football aspect of this allows us to put on a lot of great events for the community like kicks for kids. How important is the community involvement for you?’For me, the community involve-ment is the most important part; it’s why I’m so passionate about

Orange Bowl. When you play youth football, you really understand what teamwork and responsibility means. I loved playing football when I was young and I love seeing those kids out there. Some of them aren’t even as big as the ball, but they’re learn-ing about football and they’re having fun.

I know you’re heavily involved in the community and in the Seaquarium. The dolphin is currently undefeated in picking games, you think he’ll perform with the added pressure of having to pick the national championship too?Flipper is 2-0, and unfortunately our ACC friends didn’t like the way he’s been picking, but the ball knows the truth is what they say, so we’ll see how he does.

Committee Corner: Andrew Hertz A sit down with the Orange Bowl Committee’s President in WaitingBy Hayley Salyer

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“College football is so unpredictable. As soon as you think you know with certainty what’s going to happen, something is going to screw that up”

~Andrew Hertz

Hertz and Bernie Rosen at the 2011Orange Bowl Coaches Luncheon.

Hertz making his “footprint” at a 2012 Orange Bowl Kicks for Kids event.

Andrew (left) and Arhtur (middle) Hertz with Salo Sredni (left) at the 2011 Orange Bowl Rhapsody.

by the Orange Bowl (1973, ’75, ’90, 91, ’96) and have a 2-3 record in those games.

Alabama (12-1, 7-1 SEC) is making its second consecutive trip to the BCS National Champion-ship Game and its third in the last four seasons. With a victory, Alabama would become the first team in the BCS era to repeat as champions. The Crimson Tide are making their fifth trip to a BCS bowl game and its third in the National Championship Game. Alabama is the sixth team to play in consecutive BCS National Champion-ship Games. The Crimson Tide have played in eight games hosted by the Orange Bowl (1943, ’53, ’63, ’65, ’66, ’72, ’75, ’00) and have a 4-4 record in those games.

The 2013 Discover BCS National Champion-ship Game will be the seventh all-time meeting between Notre Dame and Alabama and the first since 1987. Notre Dame holds a 5-1 record in the all-time series; including two bowl victories over the Crimson Tide. The two teams met in the 1973 Sugar Bowl and the 1975 Orange Bowl. Alabama entered the 1975 Orange Bowl ranked No. 1, but the Fighting Irish took an early 7-0 lead en route to a 13-11 upset victory in Ara Parseghian’s final game as head coach at Notre Dame.

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2012 Orange Bowl Youth Football Alliance Sponsors

2012 Cheer And Dance ChampionshipsBy Akilah Laster

Nearly 100 cheer and dance squads gathered at the Bank United Center on the University of Miami campus in Coral Gables Sunday, No-vember 25th, after a season of celebratory side-line support for youth football, to showcase and compete in the Orange Bowl Youth Football Alliance (YFA) Cheer & Dance Championships presented by Sports Authority.

The day fused the top 100 pop and hip-hop playlist of the last two decades with the com-petitive choreography performed by the 1100 participating 5-14 year old girls from through-out South Florida. Along with 1st thru 3rd place accolades, teams were able to earn trophies for the overall highest score and sportsmanship.

“[The Orange Bowl YFA] offers more compe-tition than others,” said Coral Buxeda, head coach of the Doral Lady Broncos, who won first place and highest score award in the Mini-Small Division. “To see how the girls responded against so many teams is incredible.”

OBC Board Member and Assistant Chair of the Orange Bowl YFA, Gerald Grant, who has personal ties to the cheer and dance community, assisted in presenting the awards. “My daughter [who is now 26] was involved in middle school and it helped develop her character and leader-ship skills,” Grant said. “This is really what the Orange Bowl is all about, impacting the lives of young people.”

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The Miami Gardens Vikings were named Grand Cham-pions of the 2012 Cheer and Dance Championships.

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in Charlotte, N.C. Running back James Wilder, Jr. earned MVP honors as he rushed 10 times for 69 yards and two touchdowns. Defensive backs Xavier Rhodes and Karlos Williams each picked off a Georgia Tech pass as the Seminoles earned their second ACC Championship Game victory. Florida State is making its ninth Orange Bowl appearance and its first since the 2006 Classic. The Seminoles have a 3-5 record in their previous Orange Bowl games, including a national cham-pionship victory in the 1994 Orange Bowl.

No. 15 Northern Illinois (12-1, 8-0 MAC) is making its first BCS Bowl game appearance and the first appearance in the Discover Orange Bowl. The Huskies outlasted Kent State 44-37 in double overtime in the MAC Championship Game. Quarterback Jordan Lynch led the way against Kent State, as he threw for 212 yards and one touchdown while rushing for 160 yards and three touchdowns. Lynch leads the nation in total yards (4,733) and ranks third in total yards per game (364.08) behind Baylor’s Nick Florence and Texas A&M’s Johnny Manziel.

This will be the first ever meeting between the two schools and the first ever BCS bowl game for a member of the Mid-American Conference. It is also the first ever bowl meeting between the ACC and MAC.

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New teams and historical moments marked the 1950s. The Orange Bowl was televised for the first time and played host to its first two top-ranked teams and national championship games while enjoying a five-year agreement to match the Atlantic Coast Conference and Big Seven Conference against each other.

CBS nationally televised the Orange Bowl for the first time in 1953, in which Alabama piled up 596 yards in a 61-6 win against Syracuse, in what is still the Classic’s largest margin of victory.

The Orange Bowl hosted the national champion in both the 1954 and 1956 Orange Bowls, when Jim Tatum’s Maryland Terrapins and Bud Wilkinson’s Oklahoma Sooners met both times. No. 1 Maryland was declared the national champion prior to the 1954 Classic, but No. 4 Oklahoma shutout the Terps, 7-0.

Two years later, No. 1 Oklahoma scored 14 third-quarter points to beat No. 3 Maryland again, 20-6. The Sooners would go on to win two more Orange Bowls during the decade, claiming back-to-back victories over Duke, 48-21 in 1958, and Syracuse, 21-6 in 1959.

Other notable games included Paul “Bear” Bryant’s introduction to the Orange Bowl as Kentucky’s coach in 1950, which saw Santa Clara defeat the Wildcats, 21-13. In 1952, a game-winning field goal from Pepper Rodgers, who would later coach Kansas in the 1969 Orange Bowl, sent Georgia Tech to a 17-14 victory over Baylor.

The 1960s saw the Orange Bowl host a “Who’s Who” of college and professional football, with the likes of Georgia’s Fran Tarkenton (1960), Missouri head coach Dan Devine (1960-61), Navy’s Heisman Trophy winner Joe Bellino (1961), Alabama’s coach Paul “Bear” Bryant (1963, ’65-66), Lee Roy Jordan (1963), Joe Namath (1963, ‘65), Ray Perkins (1965-66), Steve Sloan (1965-66), Florida’s Heisman Trophy winner Steve Spurrier and Larry Smith (1967) and Kansas’ John Riggins (1969).

In 1963, 73,380 fans saw Namath complete nine-of-17 passes for 86 yards and a touchdown and Jordan record an Orange Bowl-record 31 tackles in a 17-0 shutout of Oklahoma in Paul “Bear” Bryant’s first Orange Bowl win as the Crimson Tide coach. Alabama continued to appear in the Classic, as the Orange Bowl hosted its third and fourth national championships in 1965 and ’66, with Texas defeating the Tide, 21-17 in ’65, and Alabama coming back to beat Nebraska, 39-28 in ’66.

The Crimson Tide’s ’65 matchup with Texas marked the first Orange Bowl to be played at night, as well was the first of 31 consecutive telecasts by NBC. Texas raced out to a 21-7 halftime lead, but Namath rallied his troops by completing 18-of-37 passes for 255 yards and two touchdowns. . Despite being stopped by Texas’ Frank Bedrick and Tommy

Nobis on a quarterback sneak on a crucial fourth-and-one from the one-yard line, Namath was named the game’s first Most Outstanding Player. Alabama won the national championship the following year.

Smith carried Florida to a 27-12 in over Georgia Tech in 1967, rushing for a then Orange Bowl record 187 yards, including an all-time long 94-yard touchdown run.Kansas and Penn State battled to a wild finish in 1969. After a Penn State touchdown that brought the Nittany Lions to within one point at 14-13, Penn State elected for a two-point conversion attempt, but Chuck Burkhart’s pass failed. However, referee Foster Grose flagged Kansas for having 12 men on the field and Penn State’s Bob Campbell plunged into the endzone to clinch a 15-14 win.

In the 1970s, the Orange Bowl again saw some of the game’s greatest coaches on its sidelines: Bryant, Devine, Notre Dame’s Ara Parseghian, LSU’s Charles McClendon, Michigan’s Bo Schembechler, Ohio State’s Woody Hayes, Arkansas’ Lou Holtz and Oklahoma’s Barry Switzer each led their teams to Orange Bowls, but the decade belonged to Nebraska’s Bob Devaney.

History of the Orange Bowl : Nightime TV Begins

The Orange Bowl matchup between Alabama and Syracuse still stands as the most lop-sided win in the game’s history, with a 61-6 win for the Crimson Tide.

JFK was one of the thousands of football fans at the 1963 Orange Bowl.

The 1965 game between Alabama and Texas was the first night game in Orange Bowl History.

smiling Jenny Aleman, 7, of the first place Tamiami Colts, “it’s about the team.”

Karshonda Spann, three year head coach of the Miami Garden Ravens, winners of the Sports-manship Award and first place for the medium PeeWee Division, commended the OBYFA for providing exposure. “The competition gives the girls diversity and allows them to compete with a different amount of girls,” Spann said.

The Orange Bowl and participating Orange Bowl YFA teams would like to thank the following sponsors: Sports Authority, American Airlines, Doctors Hospital, Florida Blue, FOX Sports Florida/SunSports, Frito-Lay, Hampton Farm, Marathon Petroleum, Urbieta Oil Co., Metro PCS, Nike, POWERADE, Sparkling ICE, Sun Life Stadium/Miami Dolphins, The Miami Her-ald, Toyota, and Wells Fargo.

RESULTSGRAND CHAMPION: Miami Gardens Vikings (National Youth Football League)

MORNING SESSION: Overall High score: Doral Broncos (Miami Xtreme), Jr. Prep MediumSpirit Award (Spirit and sportsmanship): Mi-ami Gardens Ravens (National Youth Football League) Special Needs: Tamiami Colts (Miami Xtreme) Prep Division, Small: Hialeah Cougars (Miami Xtreme) Prep Division, Medium: Kendall Boys and Girls Club Kolts (Miami Xtreme) Jr. Prep Division, Small: Western Communities Football League Varsity; Jr. Prep Division, Me-dium: Doral Broncos (Miami Xtreme); Pee Wee Division, Small: Tamiami Colts (Miami Xtreme); Pee Wee Division, Medium: Miami Gardens Ravens (National Youth Football League), Prep Mini, Small: Doral Broncos (Miami Xtreme)Mini, Medium: Western Communities Football League Ultimate

AFTERNOON SESSION:Overall High Score: Doral Broncos (Miami Xtreme) Semi Pro Medium Spirit Award (Spirit and sportsmanship): Doral Broncos (Miami Xtreme) Jr. Varsity Division, Small: Helping Hands Bulls (National Youth Football League); Jr. Varsity Division, Medium: Tamiami Colts (Miami Xtreme); Varsity Division, Small: 1Coral

Gables Cavaliers (Miami Xtreme); Varsity Divi-sion, Medium: Tamiami Colts (Miami Xtreme); Semi Pro Division, Small: Miami Springs Hawks (Miami Xtreme); Semi Pro Division, Medium: Doral Broncos (Miami Xtreme); Semi Pro Divi-sion, Large: Western Communities Football League; Pro Division, Small: Kendall Hammocks Warriors (Miami Xtreme); Pro Division, Me-dium: Tamiami Colts (Miami Xtreme).

Nebraska won a pair of national championships in 1971 and ’72 over LSU and Alabama, respectively. In the 1971 game, Jerry Tagge’s quarterback sneak on fourth-and-one from the one-yard line

was initially stopped by the Tiger defense, but Tagge stretch the ball over the goal line for a 17-12 victory.

In 1972, the Cornhuskers’ 38-6 win over the Crimson Tide was keyed in the first quarter when Johnny

Rodgers broke a 77-yard punt return for a touchdown.

Devaney’s final game on the Nebraska sidelines ended in a third straight Orange Bowl victory, a 40-6 win against Notre Dame in 1973. This time, Devaney moved Rodgers from his usual wingback position to I-Back and the Heisman Trophy winner closed out his collegiate career with the best individual performance in the Orange Bowl since Frank Sinkwich’s in 1942, scoring four touchdowns and passing for another. His final touchdown of the day came on a 50-yard pass reception in the third quarter.

The Orange Bowl Committee hosted its third national championship game of the decade on New Year’s Day ’76 when Oklahoma

beat Michigan, 14-6. Barry Switzer coached the Sooners in the first of his nine Orange Bowl appearances against the legendary Bo Schembechler, who made his only Orange Bowl appearance in ‘76.Other memories of the decade included the undefeated Nittany Lions of 1970 and ’74, Ara Parseghian’s retirement following Notre Dame’s 13-11 win over Alabama in 1975, and Arkansas’ 31-6 upset of Oklahoma in 1978 after Lou Holtz suspended his top two running backs.

Penn State’s Franco Harris (1970) and Heisman Trophy winner John Cappelletti (1974) and Nebraska’s Rich Glover (1971, ’72 and ’73) were among those who roamed the Orange Bowl turf during the decade.

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Over 1,100 of South Florida’s youth participated in the 2012 Cheer and Dance Championships.

Nebraska head coach Bob Devaney led the Nebraska Cornhuskers to three straight Or-ange Bowl victories from 1971-73.