BCS National Championship Game

The BCS National Championship Game was held annually game in the Football Bowl Subdivision, the highest division in college football was established in the United States, with the 1998 to 2013 national champion. Eligible were the two teams that the top two positions occupied by the end of the regular season in the so-called ranking that resulted from surveys of coaches and sports journalists as well as various computer-based performance analysis.

History

The BCS National Championship Game was part introduced in 1998 Bowl Championship Series (BCS ), a series of games, which took place after the end of the regular season. By 2005, the match is rotated annually between the four games of the BCS, the Fiesta Bowl, the Sugar Bowl, the Orange Bowl and the Rose Bowl, one of which was a game as a national championship game at the same time. As of 2006, the BCS National Championship Game was held as a separate fifth BCS game, the host city, and the main sponsor continues between those joined the four other BCS bowl games every year. At the two participating teams and their respective Conferences around 18 million U.S. dollars have been paid, which served to finance the sports programs of the respective universities.

The team from the University of Alabama (Alabama Crimson Tide ) was three times the BCS National Championship Game win and was the most successful team in the history of the game. Depending twice won the teams Louisiana State University ( LSU Tigers ), the University of Florida (Florida Gators ) and the Florida State University (Florida State Seminoles ). Most frequently participated, the team from the University of Oklahoma ( Oklahoma Sooners ) with four games, involved in most consecutive games was the team of Florida State University (Florida State Seminoles ) with three participations in the years 1998, 1999 and 2000. Dominant the Conference was the Southeastern Conference, from five different teams won a total of nine titles, of which 2006 to 2012 seven victories in a row. Nick Saban became the coach four titles within 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 took place for the last time after the 2013 season. Successor to the BCS in 2014, the College Football Playoff, attend the four teams and determine the national champion after two semi-final matches in the College Football Championship Game.