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.
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1698:
Most of London's Palace of Whitehall, the main residence of the English
monarchs dating from 1530, was destroyed by fire .
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1854:
Captain William McDonald aboard the Samarang discovered the McDonald
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1884:
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1989:
In the Second Gulf of Sidra incident over the Gulf of Sidra in the
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2004:
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