The Alabama Crimson Tide will be ringing in the New Year in New Orleans.
The No.3 Crimson Tide (11-1, 7-1 SEC) will face the No. 11 Oklahoma Sooners (10-2, 7-2 Big 12) in the Sugar Bowl on Jan. 2 in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. The pairing was announced Sunday on the BCS Selection Show on ESPN.
Alabama will appear in a BCS bowl for the fifth time in six seasons, and it will look to claim its fifth straight bowl victory. The last time Alabama played in the Sugar Bowl it lost to Utah 31-17 to end the 2008 season.
This marks the 10th consecutive season the Crimson Tide will play in a bowl game, dating back to its 20-16 loss to Minnesota in the Music City Bowl in 2004.
The other BCS bowl games are:
BCS National Championship game: No.1 Florida State vs. No. 2 Auburn
Rose Bowl: No. 4 Michigan State vs. No. 5 Stanford
Orange Bowl: No. 12 Clemson vs. No. 7 Ohio State
Fiesta Bowl: No. 6 Baylor vs. No. 15 UCF
