227's YouTube "Chili"-BCS National Championship Game From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search BCS National Championship Game The winner of the BCS National Championship Game receives the AFCA National Championship Trophy. Stadium Rotates among the following: University of Phoenix Stadium; Louisiana Superdome; Dolphin Stadium; & Rose Bowl Location Rotates among the following: Glendale, Arizona; New Orleans, Louisiana; Miami Gardens, Florida; & Pasadena, California Operated 1998-present Payout US$18,000,000 (As of 2009[update]) Sponsors Tostitos (1999, 2003, 2007) Nokia (2000, 2004) FedEx (2001, 2005, 2009) AT&T (2002) Allstate (2008) Citi (2006, 2010) 2009 Matchup Florida vs. Oklahoma (Florida 24-14) 2010 Matchup Alabama vs. Texas (Alabama 37-21) The BCS National Championship Game is the final bowl game of the annual Bowl Championship Series (BCS) and is intended by the organizers of the BCS to determine the national champion of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly known as NCAA Division I-A). The participants are the two highest-ranked teams in the BCS standings at the end of the regular college football season, currently determined by averaging the results of the final weekly USA Today Coaches' Poll, Harris Interactive Poll of media, former players and coaches, and the average of six participating Computer rankings. The game was first played at the conclusion of the 1998 college football season in accordance with an agreement reached by the Big Ten and Pac-10 conferences and the Rose Bowl Game to join the members of the former "Bowl Alliance" to create the Bowl Championship Series. The Bowl Alliance and its predecessor, the Bowl Coalition, featured championship games from 1992 through 1997. However, these could not ensure a matchup between the top two ranked teams because of the lack of participation by the Big Ten and Pac-10. The game was initially rotated among the four participating bowl games, the (Rose Bowl, Orange Bowl, Fiesta Bowl, and Sugar Bowl). However, beginning with the 2006 season, the BCS National Championship Game became a separate event played at the same site as a host bowl a week following New Year's Day. The American Football Coaches Association has contractually agreed to select the winner of the game as the national champion in its final USA Today Coaches' Poll of the season.[1] Thus, the winner of the game is awarded the AFCA National Championship Trophy in a postgame ceremony. The winner is also automatically awarded the National Football Foundation's MacArthur Trophy.[2] However, the Associated Press and the Football Writers Association of America do not participate in the BCS and may award their well respected national championship trophies to schools other than the BCS National Championship Game winner. Since the formation of the Bowl Championship Series, there have been several controversies regarding the schools selected to participate in the BCS National Championship Game. Most notably, following the 2003 season, the BCS ranking system selected the #3 ranked school in the Associated Press writers' poll, the University of Oklahoma, over the #1 ranked school in that poll, the University of Southern California, to participate in the National Championship Game (the Nokia Sugar Bowl) despite Oklahoma's decisive loss to Kansas State in the 2003 Big 12 Championship Game. 2003 is the only season, to date, since the inception of the BCS in which the national championship has been split, with Louisiana State University winning the BCS national championship and the University of Southern California winning the AP national championship and the FWAA national championship. The National Championship Game for the 2009 season at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California was held on on January 7, 2010, sponsored by Citi, and broadcast by the ABC television network. The game featured the #1 Alabama Crimson Tide and the #2 Texas Longhorns, and was won by Alabama 37-21. Contents [hide] 1 Future 2 Criticisms and controversy 3 Game results 4 Records by conference 5 Records by team 6 Media coverage 6.1 Television 6.2 Radio 7 References 8 External links [edit] Future The game's location rotates among the sites of the BCS bowls. Future scheduled sites are as follows (note the years shown are for the game, which occurs in the calendar year following the corresponding NCAA football season): University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona in 2011 Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana in 2012 Dolphin Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida in 2013 Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California in 2014 The title sponsor of the BCS National Championship Game each year is the same as that of the bowl game in that year's host location. Thus, the 2007 game was the Tostitos BCS National Championship Game, after the title sponsor of the Fiesta Bowl. The following year saw it become the Allstate BCS National Championship, and the 2009 game bears the FedEx brand. The 2010 game had Citi as its title sponsor.[3] Based upon television contracts between the BCS and the Pasadena Tournament of Roses with ESPN, the BCS will retain its current format through at least the 2014 season. [edit] Criticisms and controversy Main article: College football playoff debate Critics of the current BCS championship complain that the national champion is decided by polls and computers—not by competition on the field. The BCS method chooses only the top two ranked teams, according to a combination of the BCS computer rankings and two human polls, to compete for the national championship. Most controversies ensue when there are more than two qualified teams with the same record. Since only the top two teams can play for the title teams must be eliminated by dissecting why they are inherently not as good as the top two teams. The tie breaking procedures involve looking at the quality of opponents played and whose "loss was worse", along with other subjective criteria. This obviously has the effect of eliminating teams from the title game without definitively knowing who is better. Instead, their strength is determined by how they navigated a schedule set up years in advance without true knowledge of how good their opponents would be that season. Controversies over which best two teams in the country are included in the BCS National Championship Game are numerous. In 2003, for example, USC was not included in the BCS Championship Game, but beat Michigan in the Rose Bowl and ended up #1 in the Associated Press final poll. The following season, in 2004, undefeated Auburn University, Boise State University and University of Utah teams were left out of the National Championship Game (the FedEx Orange Bowl), although the participating teams were undefeated as well. In 2001, Oregon, second ranked in the AP poll, was bypassed in favor of Nebraska despite Nebraska's blowout loss in its final regular season game to the University of Colorado. In 2008, the University of Utah was excluded from the BCS championship for a second time despite being the only undefeated Division I-A team at the end of the season and finished second behind 13-1 Florida. In 2009, five schools finished the regular season undefeated: Alabama, Texas, Cincinnati, Texas Christian University, and Boise State, however the BCS selected traditional powers Alabama and Texas to participate in the BCS National Championship Game as they were the top two teams in the BCS rankings. However, only Alabama and Boise State emerged from the postseason undefeated. In all other NCAA sporting events, the national champions are determined by a playoff system. Many critics of the Bowl Championship Series favor a larger championship tournament with eight to sixteen teams, similar to that administered by the NCAA for its Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), Division II, and Division III football championships. Others favor adopting the incremental step of adding a single post-bowl championship game between the winners of two BCS games among the top four ranked teams in the BCS standings, the so-called "plus one" option. The SEC and ACC conferences have recently been pushing for some form of playoff system. On June 24, 2009, the BCS presidential oversight committee rejected the Mountain West Conference's proposed eight-team playoff plan.[4] [edit] Game results For Bowl Coalition championship game results from 1992-1994, see: Bowl Coalition For Bowl Alliance championship game results from 1995-1997, see: Bowl Alliance Season Date Winner Loser Bowl Game Site MVP 1998 January 4, 1999 1 Tennessee (SEC) 23 2 Florida State (ACC) 16 1999 Fiesta Bowl Sun Devil Stadium Tempe, Arizona Peerless Price, Dwayne Goodrich 1999 January 4, 2000 1 Florida State (ACC) 46 2 Virginia Tech (Big East) 29 2000 Sugar Bowl Louisiana Superdome New Orleans, Louisiana Peter Warrick 2000 January 3, 2001 1 Oklahoma (Big 12) 13 2 Florida State (ACC) 2 2001 Orange Bowl Pro Player Stadium Miami, Florida Torrance Marshall 2001 January 3, 2002 1 Miami (Florida) (Big East) 37 2 Nebraska (Big 12) 14 2002 Rose Bowl Rose Bowl Pasadena, California Ken Dorsey, Andre Johnson 2002 January 3, 2003 2 Ohio State (Big Ten) 31† 1 Miami (Florida) (Big East) 24 2003 Fiesta Bowl Sun Devil Stadium Tempe, Arizona Craig Krenzel, Mike Doss 2003 January 4, 2004 2 LSU (SEC) 21 1 Oklahoma (Big 12) 14 2004 Sugar Bowl Louisiana Superdome New Orleans, Louisiana Justin Vincent 2004 January 4, 2005 1 USC (Pac-10) 55 2 Oklahoma (Big 12) 19 2005 Orange Bowl Pro Player Stadium Miami Gardens, Florida Matt Leinart 2005 January 4, 2006 2 Texas (Big 12) 41 1 USC (Pac-10) 38 2006 Rose Bowl Rose Bowl Pasadena, California Vince Young (offense); Michael Huff (defense) 2006 January 8, 2007 2 Florida (SEC) 41 1 Ohio State (Big Ten) 14 2007 BCS National Championship Game University of Phoenix Stadium Glendale, Arizona Chris Leak (offense); Derrick Harvey (defense) 2007 January 7, 2008 2 LSU (SEC) 38 1 Ohio State (Big Ten) 24 2008 BCS National Championship Game Louisiana Superdome New Orleans, Louisiana Matt Flynn (offense); Ricky Jean-Francois (defense) 2008 January 8, 2009 2 Florida (SEC) 24 1 Oklahoma (Big 12) 14 2009 BCS National Championship Game Dolphin Stadium Miami Gardens, Florida Tim Tebow (offense); Carlos Dunlap (defense) 2009 January 7, 2010 1 Alabama (SEC) 37 2 Texas (Big 12) 21 2010 BCS National Championship Game Rose Bowl Pasadena, California Mark Ingram (offense); Marcel Dareus (defense) 2010 January 8, 2011 2011 BCS National Championship Game University of Phoenix Stadium Glendale, Arizona Note 1: †Double overtime [edit] Records by conference Conference Wins Losses Winning Teams Losing Teams SEC 6 0 Tennessee, LSU (2), Florida (2), Alabama Big 12 2 5 Oklahoma, Texas Oklahoma (3), Nebraska, Texas Pac-10 1 1 USC USC ACC 1 2 Florida State Florida State (2) Big East 1 2 Miami (FL) Virginia Tech, Miami (FL) Big Ten 1 2 Ohio State Ohio State (2) [edit] Records by team Team Appearances Wins Losses Percentage Title Seasons Florida 2 2 0 1.000 2006, 2008 LSU 2 2 0 1.000 2003, 2007 Alabama 1 1 0 1.000 2009 Tennessee 1 1 0 1.000 1998 Texas 2 1 1 .500 2005 USC 2 1 1 .500 2004 Miami (FL) 2 1 1 .500 2001 Ohio State 3 1 2 .333 2002 Florida State 3 1 2 .333 1999 Oklahoma 4 1 3 .250 2000 Nebraska 1 0 1 .000 Virginia Tech 1 0 1 .000 [edit] Media coverage [edit] Television From 1999 through 2006, ABC broadcast eight BCS National Championship Games pursuant to broadcasting rights negotiated with the BCS and the Rose Bowl, whose rights were offered separately. Beginning with the 2006–07 season, FOX obtained the BCS package, consisting of the Orange Bowl, Fiesta Bowl, Sugar Bowl, and the BCS National Championship Games hosted by these bowls, with ABC retaining the rights to the Rose Bowl and BCS National Championship Games hosted by the Rose Bowl. This means FOX has the rights to the 2009 BCS Championship Game, and ABC will have the rights to the 2010 National Championship Game. On November 18, 2008, the BCS announced that ESPN had won the television rights to the BCS National Championship Game for 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014. The contract with ESPN is notable as it appears the BCS National Championship Game will become the most prominent annual sporting event not to be shown over broadcast television.[5] Date Network Bowl Play-by-play announcer Color analyst Sideline reporter(s) Studio host(s) Studio analyst(s) TV Rating[6] 1999 ABC Fiesta Bowl Keith Jackson Bob Griese Lynn Swann John Saunders Todd Blackledge 17.2 2000 ABC Sugar Bowl Brent Musburger Gary Danielson Lynn Swann and Jack Arute John Saunders Terry Bowden 17.5 2001 ABC Orange Bowl Brad Nessler Bob Griese Lynn Swann and Jack Arute John Saunders Terry Bowden 17.8 2002 ABC Rose Bowl Keith Jackson Tim Brant Lynn Swann and Todd Harris John Saunders Terry Bowden 13.9 2003 ABC Fiesta Bowl Keith Jackson Dan Fouts Lynn Swann and Todd Harris John Saunders Terry Bowden 17.2 2004 ABC Sugar Bowl Brent Musburger Gary Danielson Lynn Swann and Jack Arute John Saunders Terry Bowden and Craig James 14.5 2005 ABC Orange Bowl Brad Nessler Bob Griese Lynn Swann and Todd Harris John Saunders Craig James and Aaron Taylor 13.7 2006 ABC Rose Bowl Keith Jackson Dan Fouts Todd Harris and Holly Rowe John Saunders Craig James and Aaron Taylor 21.7 2007 FOX 2007 BCS National Championship Game Thom Brennaman Barry Alvarez and Charles Davis Chris Myers Chris Rose Eddie George, Emmitt Smith and Jimmy Johnson 17.4 2008 FOX 2008 BCS National Championship Game Thom Brennaman Charles Davis Chris Myers Chris Rose Eddie George, Urban Meyer and Jimmy Johnson 17.4 2009 FOX 2009 BCS National Championship Game Thom Brennaman Charles Davis Chris Myers Chris Rose Eddie George, Barry Switzer and Jimmy Johnson 15.8 2010 ABC 2010 BCS National Championship Game Brent Musburger Kirk Herbstreit Lisa Salters and Tom Rinaldi Chris Fowler and Rece Davis Lee Corso, Desmond Howard, Pete Carroll, Lou Holtz and Mark May 20.6 2011 ESPN 2011 BCS National Championship Game TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD 2012 ESPN BCS National Championship Game TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD 2013 ESPN BCS National Championship Game TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD 2014 ESPN BCS National Championship Game TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD Expected announcer, subject to change. [edit] Radio Date Network Bowl Play-by-play announcer Color analyst Sideline reporter(s) 2007 ESPN Radio Tostitos BCS National Championship Game Brent Musburger Bob Davie and Todd Blackledge Lisa Salters 2008 ESPN Radio Allstate BCS National Championship Game Brent Musburger Kirk Herbstreit Lisa Salters 2009 ESPN Radio FedEx BCS National Championship Game Brent Musburger Kirk Herbstreit Lisa Salters 2010 ESPN Radio Citi BCS National Championship Game Mike Tirico Jon Gruden and Todd Blackledge Wendi Nix [edit] References ^ http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/football/2009-01-13-bcs-coaches_N.htm ^ NFF Website ^ Allstate press release, March 22, 2006 ^ College football: BCS presidents reject playoff plan, Los Angeles Times, June 25, 2009 ^ ESPN, BCS agree to four-year deal for television, radio, digital rights ^ bcsfootball.org - TV Ratings [edit] External links Bowl Championship Series - Official website of the Bowl Championship Series. 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