Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/1996_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season> ?p ?o. }
Showing items 1 to 39 of
39
with 100 items per page.
- 1996_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season abstract "The 1996 NCAA Division I-A football season ended with the Florida Gators crowned National Champions, but not as unanimously as the Bowl Alliance would have hoped.Florida defeated Florida State in the Sugar Bowl, which was the designated National Championship that year. Florida had faced Florida State earlier in the year, when they were ranked #1 and #2, and lost. Were it not for Texas beating Nebraska, then #3, in the first ever Big 12 Championship Game, Florida wouldn't have even been in the title game. And even once they were there, it wasn't certain a victory would mean a national championship. The Rose Bowl game featured #2 Arizona State and #4 Ohio State. Florida St. and Arizona St. were the only unbeatens going into bowl season, so a Rose Bowl victory would give the Sun Devils a legitimate chance on winning the title. This scenario looked plausible as Arizona State's Jake Plummer scored with 1:40 left to play in the game, making the score 17-14. But Ohio State's backup quarterback Joe Germaine marched down the field to pull out a heart stopping 20-17 win. On the one hand, this meant the national title game the following night would produce an incontrovertible champion. On the other hand, it left doubt to whether or not Ohio State deserved a stake in the national title, as evidenced by the team's 1½ first place votes in the final AP poll. The Pac-10 and Big Ten could no longer afford to hold onto tradition while the rest of the country wanted a clear national champion. Reading the writing on the wall, they would soon join the national championship series with the other major conferences. The Big 12 (Big 8 + 4 SWC members in Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, and Baylor) would begin play as a two division conference, with Oklahoma and Oklahoma State joining the South Division, breaking up the classic Nebraska–Oklahoma rivalry, but renewing the Texas-Oklahoma rivalry, known as the Red River Shootout. The first football game in conference play was between Texas Tech and Kansas State, Kansas State won by a score of 21–14.A new conference, Conference USA, formed from a combination of the Metro Conference and the Great Midwest Conference, neither of which had sponsored football. The conference champion has a tie in with the Liberty Bowl. The conference included SWC refugee Houston, as well as Louisville and Southern Miss, two solid independents. The Western Athletic Conference gained three members from the defunct Southwest Conference in TCU, SMU, and Rice, as well as UNLV, San Jose State, and Tulsa. The now 15-team conference split into a Pacific and Mountain division and played a championship game.There was a large controversy when #5 BYU was robbed of a spot in a Bowl Alliance game, as they were snubbed in favor of lower ranked teams from Bowl Alliance conferences. This would spur Congress into action, and would eventually be a reason the BCS polls were created.The Big West Conference lost several schools. Pacific stopped sponsoring football (as of 2013, they remain the last Division I-A school to do so). Arkansas State, Louisiana Tech, Northern Illinois, and Southwestern Louisiana (now Louisiana-Lafayette), all which collectively joined the Big West in 1993, left to become independents. UNLV and San Jose State left to join the Western Athletic Conference.Although Pacific University dropped football this year, four new schools moved up to Division 1-A football: University of Alabama at Birmingham, Boise State University, University of Central Florida, and University of Idaho.The 1996 season was also notable as it marked the end of ties in college football, as an overtime system was put into place across all of Division I-A. The 1995 season had overtime rules, but only for postseason games.".
- 1996_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season wikiPageID "4166606".
- 1996_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season wikiPageRevisionID "583028657".
- 1996_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season champions 1996_Florida_Gators_football_team.
- 1996_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season championshipBowl "1997".
- 1996_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season championshipLocation Mercedes-Benz_Superdome.
- 1996_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season championshipLocation New_Orleans.
- 1996_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season hasPhotoCollection 1996_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season.
- 1996_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season heisman "Danny Wuerffel, Florida QB".
- 1996_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season numberOfBowls "18".
- 1996_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season numberOfTeams "111".
- 1996_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season preseasonAp 1996_Nebraska_Cornhuskers_football_team.
- 1996_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season team "Army Black Knights".
- 1996_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season team "Ball State Cardinals".
- 1996_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season team "California Golden Bears".
- 1996_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season team "Houston Cougars".
- 1996_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season team "Navy Midshipmen".
- 1996_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season team "Nevada Wolf Pack".
- 1996_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season team "Pacific Tigers".
- 1996_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season team "San Diego State Aztecs".
- 1996_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season team "Southern Miss Golden Eagles".
- 1996_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season title "Army".
- 1996_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season title "Ball State".
- 1996_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season title "California".
- 1996_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season title "Houston".
- 1996_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season title "Navy".
- 1996_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season title "Nevada".
- 1996_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season title "Pacific".
- 1996_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season title "San Diego St.".
- 1996_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season title "Southern Mississippi".
- 1996_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season year "1996".
- 1996_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season subject Category:1996_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season.
- 1996_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season comment "The 1996 NCAA Division I-A football season ended with the Florida Gators crowned National Champions, but not as unanimously as the Bowl Alliance would have hoped.Florida defeated Florida State in the Sugar Bowl, which was the designated National Championship that year. Florida had faced Florida State earlier in the year, when they were ranked #1 and #2, and lost.".
- 1996_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season label "1996 NCAA Division I-A football season".
- 1996_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season sameAs m.0bmrbg.
- 1996_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season sameAs Q4591541.
- 1996_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season sameAs Q4591541.
- 1996_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season wasDerivedFrom 1996_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season?oldid=583028657.
- 1996_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season isPrimaryTopicOf 1996_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season.