College football at its best, BCS Championship Game
(Bowl Championship Series) is one of the pinnacles of the whole year.
The Bowl Championship Series (BCS) is a selection system designed to
pair the top two teams in college football against each other in the
BCS National Championship Game, with the winner crowned the BCS
national champion. This championship puts the best against the best,
selecting the top ten best teams from the year to match up to determine
the national champion of all college football teams of the nation.
Referring
to the current BCS format, four bowl games and the National
Championship Game are considered "BCS bowl games". Other bowl games
include the Rose Bowl Game in Pasadena, the Sugar Bowl played in New
Orleans (should be a exciting game this year), the Orange Bowl in
Miami, and the Fiesta Bowl in Glendale, Arizona.
Concerning the
BCS contract, the first eight seasons of the championship game rotated
among the four bowls. In 2007 the last game of the BCS Championship
will serve as the host facility of the new stand-alone BCS National
Championship game played on January 8 of that year, one week following
the playing of the traditional bowl game which would follow the Rose
Bowl with the exception of the games to be played in 2010. There are
also twenty-seven non-BCS bowls.
The BCS Championship committee
has decided to put in a system of BCS bowl games and have the extra
game just be called "The National Championship Game to be held at the
site of that year's championship game, such that the additional,
non-championship bowl be named after the original bowl. They have also
tried to have a system were cities would bid to be the permanent site
of the BCS game. But this proposal was voted down.
The BCS Championship game will be an exciting game to see in person. But the tickets will be hard to obtain.