Question: The 2012 Florida Gators football team was invited to which postseason college football bowl game on Wednesday, January 2, 2013, at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana?

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The 2013 Allstate Sugar Bowl was a postseason college football bowl game on Wednesday, January 2, 2013, at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana.
 The game featured the Florida Gators of the SEC and the Louisville Cardinals of the Big East.
 The game was broadcast live on ESPN at 8:30 PM ET.
 Louisville was selected to their first Sugar Bowl after a 10-2 regular season that culminated in a share of the Big East title.
 Florida was picked as the other half of the matchup following an 11–1 campaign.
The Sugar Bowl is an annual American college football bowl game played in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana.
 The Sugar Bowl has been played annually since January 1, 1935, and celebrated its 75th anniversary on January 2, 2009.
 The Sugar Bowl, along with the Orange Bowl and Sun Bowl, are the second-oldest bowl games in the country, behind the Rose Bowl Game.
 The Sugar Bowl is also a member of the College Football Playoff.
 Presently, its official title is the Allstate Sugar Bowl after its current sponsor, the Allstate insurance company.
The 1946 Florida Gators football team represented the University of Florida during the 1946 college football season.
 The season was Raymond Wolf's first of four as the head coach of the Florida Gators football team.
 Wolf's first Gators squad was composed mostly of college freshmen and returning World War II veterans who had not played football in several years.
 The winless 0–9 season was also the worst win–loss record in the history of Gators football to date, surpassing the winless 0–5 record of the overmatched 1916 Gators.
 Wolf's 1946 Florida Gators finished 0–5 in the Southeastern Conference (SEC), placing last of 12 SEC teams.
 Despite the winless record, the Gators developed the seventh best passing attack in the nation, with end Broughton Williams leading the nation in receiving.
 Harold Griffin led the nation in punt return average.
The 2014 New Orleans Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 20, 2014 at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana.
 The fourteenth annual New Orleans Bowl, it pitted the Nevada Wolf Pack of the Mountain West Conference against the Louisiana-Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns of the Sun Belt Conference.
 The game began at 10:00 a.m. CST and aired on ESPN.
 It was the first of the 2014–15 bowl games that concluded the 2014 FBS football season.
 Sponsored by freight shipping company R+L Carriers, the game was officially known as the R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl.
 Louisiana–Lafayette beat Nevada by a score of 16–3.
The 2012 Florida Gators football team represented the University of Florida in the sport of American football during the 2012 college football season.
 The Gators competed in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Eastern Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC), and played their home games at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium on the university's Gainesville, Florida campus.
 The 2012 season was the Gators' second under head coach Will Muschamp.
 They finished the season with 11–2 overall, 7–1 SEC, sharing SEC Eastern Division title with Georgia.
 The team was invited to the 2013 Sugar Bowl, where they lost to the Louisville Cardinals, 33–23.
The 2013 New Orleans Bowl was an American college football bowl game that was played on December 21, 2013 at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana.
 The thirteenth edition of the New Orleans Bowl, it featured the Tulane Green Wave of Conference USA against the Louisiana–Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns of the Sun Belt Conference.
 The game began at 8:00 p.m. CST and aired on ESPN.
 It was one of the 2013–14 bowl games that concluded the 2013 FBS football season.
 Sponsored by freight shipping company R+L Carriers, the game was officially known as the R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl.
 The Ragin' Cajuns defeated the Green Wave by a score of 24–21.
The 2015 New Orleans Bowl was a postseason American college football bowl game played on December 19, 2015 at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana.
 The 15th edition of the New Orleans Bowl featured the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs from Conference USA against the Arkansas State Red Wolves of the Sun Belt Conference.
 It began at 8:00 p.m. CST and air on ESPN.
 It was one of the 2015–16 bowl games that concludes the 2015 FBS football season.
 Sponsored by freight shipping company R+L Carriers, it was officially known as the R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl.
The 2012 Allstate Sugar Bowl was the 78th edition of the annual postseason college football bowl game known as the Sugar Bowl.
 It featured the Michigan Wolverines and the Virginia Tech Hokies on Tuesday, January 3, 2012, at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana.
 The game was the final contest of the 2011 football season for both teams and was the third game of the 2011–2012 Bowl Championship Series (BCS).
 The game ended with 23–20 Michigan victory in overtime.
 Michigan represented the Big Ten Conference (Big Ten) as the at-large team from the conference, while Virginia Tech represented the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) as its at-large team.
 The game was televised in the United States on ESPN and an estimated 9.6 million viewers watched the broadcast live.
 This was the first Sugar Bowl since 2000, as well as only the sixth since World War II and the tenth overall, not to feature a Southeastern Conference (SEC) team.
The 1980 Florida Gators football team represented the University of Florida during the 1980 NCAA Division I-A football season.
 The season was the Florida Gators football team's second season under new head coach Charles B. "Charley" Pell, and marked a remarkable one-year turnaround for the Gators from their 0–10–1 record in 1979.
 The winless 1979 season was the worst season in Gators history, and it was Pell's first campaign as the new head coach of the Gators, after the Gators' previous head coach, Doug Dickey, was fired in the aftermath of a 4–7 season in 1978.
 Pell's 1980 Florida Gators posted an 8–4 overall record and a Southeastern Conference (SEC) record of 4–2, tying for fourth place in the ten-team SEC.
 The Gators capped their season with a 35–20 bowl victory over the Maryland Terrapins in the Tangerine Bowl, marking the first time in the history of major college football that a winless team received a bowl bid the following season.
 Linebacker David Little set the career record for tackles by a Gator and was consensus All-American.
 Receiver Cris Collinsworth was first-team All-American.
 The season features the famous "Run Lindsay Run" in the close loss to national champion Georgia.
The 2012 Allstate BCS National Championship Game was a postseason college football bowl game between the Alabama Crimson Tide and the LSU Tigers, and determined the national champion of the 2011 NCAA Division I FBS football season on Monday, January 9, 2012, at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana.
 The game was part of the 2011–2012 Bowl Championship Series and a rematch of regular season foes.