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There are plenty of college football fans who remain confused about various elements of the Bowl Championship Series, or the BCS as it’s commonly known. It seems like new bowl games are added each year to satisfy new sponsors, and there’s always criticism about how teams are chosen for each game. But one thing that’s not confusing is where the BCS games are held – because it’s always in the same four cities.

The four BCS bowl games and their locations each year are:

• Fiesta Bowl – Glendale, Arizona
• Orange Bowl – Miami, Florida
• Rose Bowl – Pasadena, California
• Sugar Bowl – New Orleans, Louisiana

The dates and order of these four bowls change each year, and the location of the National Championship Game – although it’s always in one of these four cities – also changes each year. But at the very least, searching for cheap flights to BCS games is easy because you always know the four locations to look for.

>> The BCS bowl games schedule for the 2011-2012 season is: Jan 2 (Rose Bowl and Fiesta Bowl), Jan 4 (Orange Bowl), Jan 3 (Sugar Bowl) and Jan 9 (National Championship Game, New Orleans)

The 2010 Super Bowl – Super Bowl XLIV (or Super Bowl 44, for those of you who can’t read Latin numbers) – will be in Miami on February 7, 2010. Miami has hosted the event nine times in the past, and it’s not hard to understand why. If your big event were held each year in one of the notoriously dreariest months, wouldn’t you want to make sure it happened in a sunny climate?

Yeah, me too.

So, even if you’re not the world’s biggest football fan, or your favorite team isn’t even in the playoffs, there are still some decent reasons for making the trip to Miami for the Super Bowl. If, for instance, your significant other loves the game, why not tag along and get a Florida holiday out of it?

No matter what the reasoning behind it, if you’re going to Miami for the Super Bowl you’ll need some travel advice. Which is what we’re here to deliver.

There are few things that are as satisfying as combining two things you love. For instance, if you’re a football fan who also likes to travel, what’s better than taking a trip to see the Super Bowl? It’s even better when you consider that the Super Bowl is almost always in a city that’s relatively warm in the winter, so that if you stay more than a day or two you’ll get the added benefit of a warm weather vacation in addition to a football game.

But if you also love saving money, then you’ll want to know all the tricks you could use to get a good deal on a trip to the Super Bowl in Miami, right? Well, one of them is to fly into a different city than Miami.

Wait, what?

You heard me. Yes, the 2010 Super Bowl is in Miami – but that doesn’t mean you only have one choice for airports in Miami to fly into. Yes, there’s a big airport located right in Miami – but there are also a couple other airports within a reasonable distance that are worth checking for cheap airfares, too.

Here are the alternate airports for Miami that you should look at if you’re hunting for cheap airfare to the Super Bowl (and a little bit about Miami International Airport, too, because we’re nice).