page_title: 2009 Fiesta Bowl
section_title: The Ohio State and Texas football programs
hierarchical_section_title: 2009 Fiesta Bowl / The Ohio State and Texas football programs
caption_attribution_description: College football game betwen University of Texas at Austin and Ohio State University - UT quarterback Colt McCoy hands off to Jamaal Charles
context_page_description: The 2009 Tostitos Fiesta Bowl game was a post-season college football bowl game between the Ohio State Buckeyes and the Texas Longhorns on Monday, January 5, 2009, at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. Texas participated in the Fiesta Bowl because the Big 12 champion University of Oklahoma Sooners were participating in the 2009 BCS National Championship Game; however the bowl kept its ties to the Big 12 by selecting the Longhorns, who did not play in the championship game as they beat Oklahoma in the Red River Rivalry, 45-35, then lost to Texas Tech and Texas Tech in turn lost to Oklahoma and dictated that a tiebreaker would decide that the highest BCS ranked team for the Big 12 South the week of November 28, 2008 would be in the title game. The Buckeyes were chosen as an at-large school as co-champions of the Big Ten Conference, having lost the right to play in the Rose Bowl due to a 13-6 loss to Penn State on October 25.
  The Fiesta Bowl served as the penultimate contest of the 2008–2009 Bowl Championship Series of the 2008 NCAA Division I FBS football season and was the concluding game of the season for both teams involved.
context_section_description: The Ohio State Buckeyes and the Texas Longhorns are two of the most storied programs in college football.  Before 2005 each school had participated in college football for more than 100 years.  They are home to nationally known traditions from the Buckeye leaf stickers and the O-H-I-O chant at Ohio State to Bevo and the Hook 'em Horns of Texas.
  One of the three most victorious programs in college football history as judged by either number of wins or winning percentage, the University of Texas has traditionally been considered a college football powerhouse.  From 1936 to 2004, the team finished the season in the top ten 23 times, or one-third of the time, according to the Associated Press. The team that coach Mack Brown fielded in 2005 has been called one of the most memorable in college football history by College Football News.
  Like the Longhorns, the Buckeyes are an elite football program.  The Buckeyes program has produced 164 first-team All-American players, including seven Heisman Trophy winners.  The Buckeyes rank fifth in college football history in terms of both total wins and winning percentage.
caption: 2006 Game: McCoy hands off to Jamaal Charles vs. Ohio State
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