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BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Dec. 6 (UPI) - The Alabama Crimson Tide will play the Texas Longhorns in football game BCS national championship Jan. 7 in Pasadena, California

The title match was announced on Sunday after the BCS final standings were released.

Texas and Alabama were 1-2 in the BCS final standings, released Sunday, the day after winning conference titles. They meet for the first time since the Cotton Bowl 1982.

"This will be a difficult game for us," Alabama coach Nick Saban of Birmingham in a television interview Fox Sports.

Alabama (13-0) beat 2009 national champion Florida 32-13 on Saturday in the title contest of the SEC and Texas (13-0) won the title of the Big 12, beating Nebraska by 13.12 a 46-yard Hunter Lawrence field goal on the final play of the game.

The Longhorns, behind quarterback Vince Young, beat Southern California 41-38 in the Rose Bowl to win the national title in 2005.

Alabama has not played the first college football award since defeating Miami 34-13 in the Sugar Bowl 1993. That victory gave Alabama the national championship.

3.10 points in the BCS poll were taken by Cincinnati (12-0), TCU (12-0), Florida (12-1), Boise State (13-0), Oregon (10-2), Ohio (10-2) (11-2 Georgia Tech) and Iowa (10-2).

Other BCS bowl clashes:

- Oregon (10-2) vs. Ohio State (10-2) at the Rose Bowl Jan. 1 in Pasadena.

- Florida (12-1) vs. Cincinnati (12-0) in the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans January 1.

- (Boise State 13-0) vs. TCU (12-0) in the Fiesta Bowl on January 4 Glendale, Arizona

- Georgia Tech (11-2) vs. Iowa (10-2) in the Orange Bowl 5 January in Miami.

Additional bowl games include Oklahoma Stanford in the Sun Bowl, Nebraska, Arizona, Holiday Bowl, Virginia, Tennessee in the Chick-Fil-A Bowl, Northwest-Auburn in the Outback Bowl, Penn State-LSU in the Capital One Bowl, Florida-West Virginia in the Gator Bowl, Arkansas, East Carolina in the Liberty Bowl, and Oklahoma State-Ole Miss in the Cotton Bowl.

Spain finishes 5-0 Davis Cup victory

BARCELONA, Spain, Dec. 6 (UPI) - Win by Rafael Nadal and David Ferrer, Domingo Spain capped a 5-0 sweep of the Czech Republic, ending its second straight Davis Cup title.

Spain is the first repeat winner since the Davis Cup in Sweden in 1998.

Nadal beat Jan Hajek 6-3 6-4 Ferrer downed Lukas Dlouhy 6-4, 6-2, making Spain the first country to win a 5-0 Davis Cup final since 1997.

Sunday's results had no impact on Spain's victory because the title was wrapped when Feliciano Lopez and Fernando Verdasco won their doubles match over Tomas Berdych and Radek Stepanek on Saturday, securing fourth of the Spanish Davis Cup title in 10 years .

"I feel very happy," captain of Spain Albert Costa. "I'm very happy for the whole team. We have done an incredible job throughout the year."

Nadal, a former world No. 1, was lost last year's Davis Cup final victory over Argentina with a knee injury.

Knee injury ends season for Greg Oden

PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 6 (UPI) - Injury-prone Portland Trail Blazers center Greg Oden will miss the rest of the season because of a left knee injury, general manager Kevin Pritchard.

Oden had surgery on his knee on Sunday in Vancouver, Washington, GM said.

The 7-footer suffered a fracture of the patella (kneecap broken) in the first period of Saturday's 90-89 victory at Houston Rockets and was taken off the floor at the Rose Garden in Portland on a stretcher.

Oden, after trying to block a shot by Aaron Brooks in Houston, fell and was writhing in obvious pain, clutching his knee for several minutes.

"I'm obviously disappointed to have worked so hard to get where I was," Oden said in a statement released by the team. "This is a setback, but I'll be back. It's in God's hands now."

Oden, a first-round pick by the Blazers in the NBA draft in 2007 from Ohio State, missed the 2007-08 season after microfracture surgery on his right knee. He missed chunks of last season with a foot injury and fractured left knee. In 2006, he had surgery on his right wrist.

Allenby is the winner of the playoffs in South Africa

SUN CITY, South Africa, Dec. 6 (UPI) - Robert Allenby won the Nedbank Golf Challenge in Sun City, South Africa on Sunday with a two-putt par on the third hole of a playoff against Henrik Stenson.

Allenby shot a 71 and Stenson 69 to tie it at 11-under par 71 in regulation play.

Each parres the first two playoff holes. In the third extra hole, Allenby hit his approach shot to 5 feet of the pin and won with two putts after attempt Stenson missed a 30-foot par.

"The only thing on my mind (on the third playoff hole) was hitting my 6-iron straight at the pin, and hit me perfectly," said Allenby.

Tim Clark (69) and Ross Fisher (70) tied for third at 278 and Retief Goosen, who led after three rounds, fell to a 75 and finished fifth at 279.