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Bowl Championship Series 2009

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2008- 2009 BCS Bowl Championship Series

• Location Miami Gardens, Florida
• Date January 8, 2009
• Stadium Dolphin Stadium

The Bowl Championship Series (BCS) is a selection system designed to give the top two teams in the NCAA FBS Bowl Subdivision System an opportunity to compete in a "national championship game". This championship is intended as a surrogate for a playoff system since the NCAA does not formally determine a champion in this category.

The BCS relies on a combination of polls and computer selection methods to determine relative team rankings, and to narrow the field to two teams to play in the BCS National Championship Game held after the other college bowl games. The winner of this game is crowned the BCS national champion, and is guaranteed at least a share of the national championship.

The system also selects matchups for the other prestigious BCS bowl games. The ten teams selected include the conference champion from each of the six BCS conferences plus four others ("at-large" selections). The BCS was created by formal agreement among the six "major" conferences, and has evolved to allow other "mid-major" conferences to participate. It is not formally recognized by the NCAA as a collegiate championship.

It has been in place since the 1998 season, but a number of controversial selections have spurred changes in the system that continue into the present. Prior to the 2006 season eight teams competed in four BCS Bowls. The BCS replaced the Bowl Alliance (in place from 1995-1997), which followed the Bowl Coalition (in place from 1992-1994). As of the 2006-07 season, the BCS will air primarily on FOX while only the Rose Bowl will continue to be shown on ABC.

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BCS National Championship Game

Dolphin Stadium

	Location:	Date:
	Miami, Florida	Jan. 8, 2009, 20:00 ET
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Sugar Bowl

Louisiana Superdome

	Location:	Date:
	New Orleans, La.	Jan. 2, 2009, 20:00 ET
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Rose Bowl

Rose Bowl Stadium

	Location:	Date:
	Pasadena, CA	Jan. 1, 2009, 13:30 ET
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Fiesta Bowl

University of Phoenix Stadium

	Location:	Date:
	Glendale, AZ	Jan. 5, 2009, 20:30 ET
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Orange Bowl

Dolphin Stadium

	Location:	Date:
	Miami, Florida	Jan. 1, 2009, 20:00 ET
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History Behind The BCS

Prior to the 1992 season, college football had no system that attempted to match the top-ranked teams in a post-season championship game. Not surprisingly, this led to the possibility, and even prevalence, that different human polls would select different national champions. This happened on many occasions.

To address this problem, five conferences, six bowl games and leading independent Notre Dame joined forces to create the Bowl Coalition, which was intended to force a de facto "national championship game" between the top two teams. By entirely excluding so-called "mid-major" conferences, the Bowl Coalition also made it impossible for a "mid-major" team to ever win a national championship as BYU did in 1984. This system was in place from the 1992 season through the 1994 season. While traditional tie-ins between conferences and bowls remained, a team would be released to play in another bowl if it was necessary to form a championship game. However, this system did not include the Big Ten and Pac-10 champions, two of the traditionally strongest conferences, as both were obligated to play in the Rose Bowl.

The Bowl Coalition was restructured into the Bowl Alliance for the 1995 season, involving five conferences (reduced to four for the 1996 season) and three bowls (Fiesta, Sugar, and Orange). The championship game rotated among these three bowls. It still did not, however, include the Pac-10 or Big Ten champions, the Rose Bowl or any so-called "mid-major" teams.

The debate intensified after Michigan and Nebraska split the national championship according to human polls during the 1997 season. After a protracted round of negotiations, the Bowl Alliance was reformed into the Bowl Championship Series for the 1998 season. The Tournament of Roses Association, which operates the Rose Bowl, agreed to release the Big Ten and Pac-10 champions if it was necessary to form a national championship game. In return, the Rose Bowl was added to the yearly national championship rotation. Roy Kramer is considered to have created the BCS. The new Bowl Championship Series not only included the Big Ten and the Pac-10 conferences but also teams from mid-major conferences based on performance.

Bowl Games

In the current BCS format, four bowl games and the National Championship Game are considered "BCS bowl games". The four bowl games are the Rose Bowl Game in Pasadena,California, the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans, the Fiesta Bowl in Glendale, Arizona, and the Orange Bowl in Miami Gardens, Florida. In the first eight seasons of the BCS contract, the championship game was rotated among the four bowls, with each bowl game hosting the national championship once every four years.

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