Date: December 31, 2010
Venue: Downtown Atlanta
Time: 12:30 PM ET
Coverage: ESPN HD
Teams: South Carolina (9-4, 5-3 SEC) vs Florida State (9-4, 6-2 ACC)
The Chick-Fil-A bowl is a really intereting bowl that was renamed on 1998 including that year. Before that was also known as the Peach Bowl and the Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl (1998–2005). The purse for this game fluctuates around the 2.4 million dollars but the actual purse has not being cleared out yet.The game was originally created as a fund-raiser by the Lions Clubs of Georgia but in 1968, after years of lackluster attendance and revenue, the game was taken over by the Chamber of Commerce. Atlanta-based Chick-fil-A became the title sponsor of the event with the 1998 game. Beginning with the December 2006 game, Chick-fil-A assumed complete naming rights to the game in a five year, $22 million, sponsorship deal, ending almost forty years of the Peach Bowl name. A new logo was unveiled April 6, 2006. The funds from the deal will be used to increase payouts for the participating teams in hopes of further enhancing the bowl’s stature. In response, the ACC has given the committee the first pick of its teams after the BCS beginning in 2006. The bowl currently has the fifth overall selection from the SEC (including the BCS). The 2007 game was a sellout, the eleventh consecutive year as such, making the Chick-fil-A Bowl the best-attended non-BCS bowl for the last decade and marking the 3rd longest bowl sellout streak behind the Rose and Fiesta Bowls.
South Carolina and Florida State were both the runners-up in their respective conference championship games, as neither could stop talented quarterbacks. Still, this game will feature two of the nation’s top defenses. The Gamecocks led the SEC in rushing defense and sacks, and the Seminoles are No. 2 in the nation in sacks.
Here we can indlude some statistics of both teams. Is important to check this stats because despite a team have good numbers it does not mean that another team from another division (with less efficient numbers) could not win against the “good team”. Here are the stats for both of the teams in order to analyze them.
South Carolina
Win-Lose: 9-4
Average Points: 32.0
Average Points Allowed: 22.9
Home Record: 6-2
Road Record: 3-2
Division Record: 4-1
Conference Record: 5-3
Florida State
Win-Lose: 9-4
Average Points: 31.8
Average Points Allowed: 19.8
Home Record: 6-1
Road Record: 3-1
Division Record: 4-1
Conference Record: 6-2
Is also important to have a good idea of the performance of the key players of each team. Bellow there is a complete report of such performance which is useful to decide what team is in a better position to win the game.
Florida St Leaders
Passing: Ponder – 183-294, 2038 yds, 20 tds
Rushing: Thompson – 108 car, 699 yds, 5 tds
Receiving: Reed – 56 rec, 589 yds, 2 tds
South Carolina Leaders
Passing: Garcia – 205-315, 2816 yds, 20 tds
Rushing: Lattimore – 248 car, 1198 yds, 17 tds
Receiving: Jeffery – 79 rec, 1387 yds, 9 tds
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