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- Bowl_Championship_Series abstract "The Bowl Championship Series (BCS), in American football, was a selection system that created five bowl match-ups involving ten of the top ranked teams in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), including an opportunity for the top two to compete in the BCS National Championship Game.The BCS relied 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 American Football Coaches Association was contractually bound to vote the winner of this game as the BCS National Champion and the contract signed by each conference required them to recognize the winner of the BCS National Championship game as the official and only champion. The BCS was created to end split championships and for the champion to win the title on the field between the two teams selected by the BCS. Despite this objective, it failed to produce a consensus champion on one occasion, as the 2003 NCAA Division I-A football season ended with a split title, with the AP poll selecting the USC Trojans and the Coaches poll selecting the LSU Tigers. The system also selected match-ups for the other prestigious BCS bowl games. The ten teams selected included the conference champion from each of the six Automatic Qualifying conferences plus four others (two others prior to the 2006 season). The BCS was created by formal agreement by those six conferences (the ACC, Big East [now the American], Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-10 [now the Pac-12], and SEC conferences) and the three FBS independent schools, and evolved to allow other conferences to participate to a lesser degree.It had been in place since the 1998 season. Prior to the 2006 season eight teams competed in four BCS Bowls. The BCS replaced the Bowl Alliance, in place from 1995–1997, which had followed the Bowl Coalition, in place from 1992–1994. Prior to the Bowl Coalition's creation in 1992, the AP Poll's number one and two teams had met in a bowl game only 8 times in 56 seasons. Since the creation of the BCS in 1998 the AP's #1 and #2 teams met 13 out of the 16 seasons the BCS was in place.On June 26, 2012, it was announced that the Bowl Championship Series would be replaced by a four-team playoff, effective for the 2014–15 season, to be called the College Football Playoff.".
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- Bowl_Championship_Series wikiPageExternalLink www.cfrc.com.
- Bowl_Championship_Series wikiPageExternalLink www.colleyrankings.com.
- Bowl_Championship_Series wikiPageExternalLink www.masseyratings.com.
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- Bowl_Championship_Series caption "BCS Logo 2006–2009. An alternate version of this logo had the Fox logo in lieu of the stars.".
- Bowl_Championship_Series caption "BCS Logo".
- Bowl_Championship_Series caption "Locations of the BCS Bowl games".
- Bowl_Championship_Series caption "Original BCS Logo 1998–2005. An alternate version of this logo had the ABC logo in lieu of the middle star.".
- Bowl_Championship_Series confMostApps Southeastern_Conference.
- Bowl_Championship_Series confMostApps "(The Big Ten has 28 appearances if counting games vacated by Penn State and Ohio State.)".
- Bowl_Championship_Series confMostChamps Southeastern_Conference.
- Bowl_Championship_Series confMostWins Southeastern_Conference.
- Bowl_Championship_Series currentChampion 2014_Florida_State_Seminoles_football_team.
- Bowl_Championship_Series director "Bill Hancock".
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- Bowl_Championship_Series image "BCS Logo 1998-2005.png".
- Bowl_Championship_Series image "Bowl Championship Series 2006-2010 logo.png".
- Bowl_Championship_Series imageSize "175".
- Bowl_Championship_Series inOperation "1998".
- Bowl_Championship_Series lastGame "2014".
- Bowl_Championship_Series mostApps Ohio_State_Buckeyes_football.
- Bowl_Championship_Series mostApps Oklahoma_Sooners_football.
- Bowl_Championship_Series mostApps "(*Does not include game vacated by Ohio State)".
- Bowl_Championship_Series mostChamps Alabama_Crimson_Tide_football.
- Bowl_Championship_Series mostWins Florida_Gators_football.
- Bowl_Championship_Series mostWins Ohio_State_Buckeyes_football.
- Bowl_Championship_Series mostWins USC_Trojans_football.
- Bowl_Championship_Series mostWins "(*Does not include games vacated by USC and Ohio State)".
- Bowl_Championship_Series name "Bowl Championship Series".
- Bowl_Championship_Series number "5".
- Bowl_Championship_Series numberType "BCS games".
- Bowl_Championship_Series precededBy Bowl_Alliance.
- Bowl_Championship_Series precededBy "Bowl Coalition".
- Bowl_Championship_Series succeededBy College_Football_Playoff.
- Bowl_Championship_Series television ESPN.
- Bowl_Championship_Series television ESPN_on_ABC.
- Bowl_Championship_Series television Fox_Sports_(United_States).
- Bowl_Championship_Series trophy AFCA_National_Championship_Trophy.
- Bowl_Championship_Series type "BCS bowl".
- Bowl_Championship_Series website www.bcsfootball.org.
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- Bowl_Championship_Series subject Category:Bowl_Championship_Series.
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- Bowl_Championship_Series comment "The Bowl Championship Series (BCS), in American football, was a selection system that created five bowl match-ups involving ten of the top ranked teams in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), including an opportunity for the top two to compete in the BCS National Championship Game.The BCS relied 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. ".
- Bowl_Championship_Series label "Bowl Championship Series".
- Bowl_Championship_Series label "Bowl Championship Series".
- Bowl_Championship_Series label "Bowl Championship Series".
- Bowl_Championship_Series label "ボウル・チャンピオンシップ・シリーズ".
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- Bowl_Championship_Series depiction 2010_BCS_Champ.jpg.
- Bowl_Championship_Series homepage www.bcsfootball.org.
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