This historic Orange Bowl has been shaped by the struggle over race and place embedded within the history of the bowl game itself and its host city, Miami.
The game racially integrated in 1955, following the Cotton Bowl (1948) and Sun Bowl (1950), which finally refused to honor the longstanding gentlemen's agreement in college football.
Miami had become known as the Magic City, built on white boosterism and segregated Black labor from the U.S. South and the Bahamas.
Regardless of who wins, a Black head coach will move on to contend for the FBS national championship title for the first time in history.
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