The Bowl Alliance was an agreement among college football bowl games for the purpose of trying to match the top two teams in a national championship bowl game and to provide quality bowl game matchups for the champions of its member conferences. The agreement was in place for the 1995, 1996, and 1997 seasons. A college football game between Colorado State University and the Air Force Academy. ... The BCS National Championship Game or BCS title game is the final game of the annual Bowl Championship Series intended by Series organizers to determine the NCAA Division I-A national football championship. ... The BCS stands for Bowl Championship Series, a computer ranking format and bowl setup that has decided the unofficial but de facto NCAA Division I_A national football championship since 1998. ...
The Bowl Alliance involved the SEC, Big 12 Conference, ACC and Big East conference champions and two at-large teams (the Southwest Conference champ in 1996; there were also special provisions for Notre Dame). It included the Orange, Sugar and Fiesta Bowls. The championship game rotated among all three bowls. The top two teams in the combined played in the title game. The Southeastern Conference (SEC) is a college athletic conference which operates in the southeastern United States. ... The Big 12 Conference is a college athletic conference of twelve schools located in the central United States. ... The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) is one of the oldest collegiate athletic leagues in the United States. ... The Big East Conference is a collegiate athletics conference consisting of thirteen universities, mostly in the northeastern United States: Boston College (scheduled to leave in 2005) University of Connecticut (UConn) Georgetown University (Plays Division I-AA football in the Patriot League) University of Notre Dame (Plays Division I-A football... The Southwest Conference (SWC) was a college athletic conference in the United States, now defunct. ...
The Bowl Alliance replaced the Bowl Coalition. The Bowl Alliance's member conferences and bowls joined with the Big Ten and Pac 10 conferences and the Rose Bowl Game beginning with the 1998College Football season to form the Bowl Championship Series. The Bowl Coalition was an agreement among college football bowl games for the purpose of trying to match the top two teams in a bowl game. ... Big Ten can refer to: Big Ten Conference, a college athletics conference Big Ten (movie studios), the largest movie studios in Hollywood This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... The Pacific Ten Conference (Pac-10) is a college athletic conference which operates in the western United States. ... The Rose Bowl is an annual American college football game, usually played on January 1 (New Years Day) at the stadium of the same name in Pasadena, California. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... A college football game between Colorado State University and the Air Force Academy. ... For other uses of the abbreviation BCS, please see BCS (disambiguation). ...
The BCS National Championship Game or BCS title game is the final game of the annual Bowl Championship Series intended by Series organizers to determine the NCAA Division I-A national football championship. ... The Bowl Coalition was an agreement among college football bowl games for the purpose of trying to match the top two teams in a bowl game. ... For other uses of the abbreviation BCS, please see BCS (disambiguation). ...
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September 20 is the 263rd day of the year (264th in leap years). ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Among the criticisms of the BCS (and the bowl system in general) is the fact that the final ranking of Division I-A NCAA football teams is decided by arbitrary and subjective standards, much like beauty pageants.
The worst year in terms of controversy was arguably the 2003-2004 season, when three schools from BCS conferences finished the season with one loss (in fact, no I-A Division team finished the season undefeated, something that hadn't happened since 1996, the year before the advent of the BCS).
Since USC beat Michigan in the Rose Bowl, the writers who voted in the AP poll had the opportunity to vote USC as their national champion, which they did.
Despite these problems, the Bowl Coalition, BowlAlliance, and the Bowl Championship Series championship games have succeeded in producing a winner that has captured or shared the National Championship in every season since they began play.
This was prior to, and therefore unaffected by, the Bowl Championship Series' later agreement with the USA Today Coaches Poll locking in the outcome of that poll based on the title game's outcome.
Many critics of the Bowl Championship Series favor a full scale championship tournament with eight to sixteen teams, similar to that administered by the NCAA for its Division I-AA, Division II and Division III football championships.
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