High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2009 Allstate Sugar Bowl was the 75th annual edition of the annual college football bowl game that is part of the 2008-09 bowl season of the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) 2008 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The game was played on Friday, January 2, 2009 at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana between the Utah Utes, champions of the Mountain West Conference, and the Alabama Crimson Tide, representing the Southeastern Conference.