2009 Orange Bowl on FOX HD - Virginia Tech vs. Cincinnati!

I'm doing graphics on this one...ignore all mistakes, please.

Who is producing/directing? This game traditionally has looked very good from that stadium.

Mike Burks/Rich Russo...

I'll check in at the half...

wow pregame show from LA...usually they do them from site.

Cost Cutting.

I for one will not be sad to see Fox leave the BCS arena when the contract is up. Their coverage seems to forced and thrown together. ESPN/ABC and others do a far better job.

The halftime show will feature the Doobie Brothers btw.

Yea it just feels too sterile, like an NFL game. ABC's coverage of the Rose Bowl seemed to really hit the right things that make college football special. FOX is dialing up the green on the field tonight too. I could chroma key the local doppler radar.

wow love the U.C. logos and how they made them 3D. Anywhere i can download them?

It's kinda a boring game, but I think it looks very good actually. A little dark on the sidelines but hardly any swimming grass for me on Comcast.

Likewise, hardly any swimming grass here on Charter cable. Looking like a competitive matchup, tied at 7.

I don't know if it's because I have been watching a baseball game from 1956 for the past 2 and a half hours, but the PQ looks very very good to me.

What are they doing with the booth cam? Shooting all the way across the stadium? No cams in the booth?

FOX is Horrible! They can't show us the Doobie Brothers full halftime performance? This is also what the Orange Bowl is about, the great halftime performances, they'd rather show us commercials.

I agree on the pq.

I have to say the pq has been the best of all of the bowl games so far. I am very surprised.

I have Dish.

I know this is offtopic for this forum, but why does the Orange Bowl insist on crappy halftime shows? Its a college football game, and halftime is for the band...every other bowl game I believe gets this, except the stupid Orange Bowl. (not hating on The Doobie Brothers, either, by the way...just the whole "we think we are the Superbowl" attitude the OB has...Im a fan of ZZ Top, who performed last year, and Id still rather see the college bands (especially since ZZ Top is way past their prime)).

This seems like the Boo-Boo Bowl. Lots of switching mistakes, intermittent "telestrator," and bad audio. You can only hear the drum line of the UC band, even though the rest of the band is playing. The VT band is OK.

The Orange Bowl used to be the prime bowl for NBC, and the halftime show was bigger than the Super Bowl's. Interactive graphics, pyrotechnics, even 3-D, the Orange Bowl halftime had it all.

Haha I don't know that they'd RATHER show commercials, but I could've done with a lot less of the studio stuff in LA and more of the performance.

this is better than their NFL coverage PQ wise, I'm impressed and surprised.

Fox has the bitrate cranked all the way up (15.5Mb/s), but it's still not that great IMO. It's better than the NFL games when they try and statmux too many together, but it doesn't live up to the couple of truly spectacular games Fox has shown. Seeing quite a bit of dancing turf, too. KDFW Dallas via FiOS. Now if only someone would "accidentally" delete the Fox graphics package and switch in the one FSN is using .

I was very impressed as well. This game in term of pq blew away any of the NFL games FOX did in 2008.

My highly objective and unbiased opinion is the Orange Bowl Victory by VT was the best game of the bowl season so far.

VT
Class of 1963