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- 1998_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season abstract "The 1998 NCAA Division I-A football season was the first of the Bowl Championship Series, which saw Tennessee win the national championship, one year after star quarterback Peyton Manning left for the NFL. The Volunteers defeated the Florida State Seminoles 23-16 in the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl in Tempe, Arizona to secure the inaugural BCS National Championship.The BCS combined elements of the old Bowl Coalition and the Bowl Alliance it replaced. The agreement existed between the Rose, Fiesta, Sugar, and Orange Bowls, the Cotton Bowl Classic diminishing in status since the breakup of the Southwest Conference. Like the Bowl Alliance, a national championship game would rotate between the four bowls, with the top two teams facing each other. These teams were chosen based upon a BCS poll, combining the AP poll, the Coaches poll, and a third computer component. The computer factored in things such as strength of schedule, margin of victory, and quality wins without taking into account time (in other words a loss in October and a loss in November were on equal footing).However, like the Bowl Coalition, the bowls not hosting the national championship would retain their traditional tie-ins. The first run of the Bowl Championship Series was not without controversy as Kansas State finished third in the final BCS standings but was not invited to a BCS bowl game. Ohio State (ranked 4th) and two-loss Florida (8th) received the at-large bids instead. Also, Tulane went undefeated but finished 10th in the BCS standings and was not invited to a BCS bowl because of their strength of schedule.Army broke away from almost one hundred years of tradition as an independent, joining Conference USA.The victories of the Penn State Nittany Lions for the 1998 season have been vacated due to NCAA sanctions handed down on July 23, 2012 resulting from the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal; 1998 was his last season as the team's defensive coordinator, and the first of twelve seasons where wins were vacated.".
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- 1998_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season bowlEnd "1999-01-04".
- 1998_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season bowlStart "1998-12-19".
- 1998_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season champions 1998_Tennessee_Volunteers_football_team.
- 1998_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season championshipBowl "1999".
- 1998_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season championshipLocation Sun_Devil_Stadium.
- 1998_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season championshipLocation Tempe,_Arizona.
- 1998_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season hasPhotoCollection 1998_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season.
- 1998_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season heisman "Ricky Williams, Texas".
- 1998_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season imageCaption "SEC and National Championship rings for the 1998 season Tennessee Volunteers".
- 1998_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season numberOfBowls "22".
- 1998_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season numberOfTeams "112".
- 1998_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season preseasonAp 1998_Ohio_State_Buckeyes_football_team.
- 1998_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season team "Air Force Falcons".
- 1998_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season team "BYU Cougars".
- 1998_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season team "Marshall Thundering Herd".
- 1998_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season team "NC State Wolfpack".
- 1998_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season team "San Diego State Aztecs".
- 1998_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season team "Southern Miss Golden Eagles".
- 1998_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season team "TCU Horned Frogs".
- 1998_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season title "Air Force".
- 1998_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season title "BYU".
- 1998_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season title "Marshall".
- 1998_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season title "NC State".
- 1998_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season title "San Diego State".
- 1998_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season title "Southern Mississippi".
- 1998_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season title "TCU".
- 1998_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season year "1998".
- 1998_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season subject Category:1998_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season.
- 1998_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season comment "The 1998 NCAA Division I-A football season was the first of the Bowl Championship Series, which saw Tennessee win the national championship, one year after star quarterback Peyton Manning left for the NFL. The Volunteers defeated the Florida State Seminoles 23-16 in the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl in Tempe, Arizona to secure the inaugural BCS National Championship.The BCS combined elements of the old Bowl Coalition and the Bowl Alliance it replaced.".
- 1998_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season label "1998 NCAA Division I-A football season".
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