BCS National Championship Game
The BCS National Championship Game was an annual game in the Football Bowl Subdivision, the top division of college football in the United States , with which the national champions were determined from 1998 to 2013. The two teams that took first two places in the so-called ranking after the end of the regular season were eligible to participate, which resulted from surveys of coaches and sports journalists as well as various computer-based performance analyzes.
history
The BCS National Championship Game was part of the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) introduced in 1998 , a game series that took place after the end of the regular season. Until 2005, the game rotated annually between the four games of the BCS, the Fiesta Bowl , the Sugar Bowl , the Orange Bowl and the Rose Bowl , each of which was considered a National Championship Game. From 2006, the BCS National Championship Game took place as a separate fifth BCS game, with the venue and the main sponsor continuing to alternate between the four other BCS Bowl games annually. The two teams involved and their conferences each received around 18 million US dollars , which were used to finance the sports programs of the respective universities .
The University of Alabama ( Alabama Crimson Tide ) team won the BCS National Championship Game three times, making it the most successful team in the game's history. The teams from Louisiana State University ( LSU Tigers ), the University of Florida ( Florida Gators ) and Florida State University ( Florida State Seminoles ) each won twice . The team from the University of Oklahoma ( Oklahoma Sooners ) took part most often with four games; the team from Florida State University ( Florida State Seminoles ) took part in the most consecutive games with three appearances in 1998, 1999 and 2000. The dominant one Conference was the Southeastern Conference , from which five different teams won a total of nine titles, including seven wins in a row from 2006 to 2012. Nick Saban won four titles as a coach in the BCS National Championship Game, including three at the University of Alabama and one at Louisiana State University.
successor
The Bowl Championship Series and the BCS National Championship Game last took place after the 2013 season. The successor to the BCS from 2014 is the College Football Playoff , in which four teams take part and after two semi-finals in the College Football Playoff National Championship Game determine the national champions.
literature
- Chad Seifried: Bowl Championship Series. In: Murry R. Nelson: American Sports: A History of Icons, Idols, and Ideas. Greenwood, Santa Barbara 2013, ISBN 0-31-339753-8 , Volume 1, pp. 170-175
Web links
- BCS Football Official Website of the Bowl Championship Series