Wikipedia:Today's featured article/January 4, 2010

The 2000 Sugar Bowl was the designated Bowl Championship Series (BCS) National Championship Game for the 1999 college football season and was played on January 4, 2000, at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Florida State Seminoles, led by head coach Bobby Bowden (pictured) and representing the Atlantic Coast Conference, defeated the Virginia Tech Hokies, then representing the Big East Conference, by a score of 46–29. With the win, Florida State clinched the 1999 Division I college football championship, the team's second national championship. An estimated total of 79,280 people attended the game in person, while approximately 18.4 million US viewers watched the game on ABC television. The resulting 17.5 television rating was the third-largest ever recorded for a BCS college football game. Florida State wide receiver Peter Warrick was named the game's most valuable player. (more...)

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