BCS National Championship Game

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The BCS National Championship Game was a postseason college football bowl game that determined the national champion of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). It was first played during the 1998 college football season as one of four designated bowl games, and beginning in the 2006 season, became a standalone event that rotated among the host sites of those bowl games. The game was organized by a group known as the Bowl Championship Series, consisting of the Rose Bowl, Sugar Bowl, Fiesta Bowl, and Orange Bowl, which sought to match the two highest-ranked teams in a championship game to determine the best team in the country at the end of the season. The participating teams were determined by averaging the results of the final weekly Coaches' Poll, the Harris Poll of media, former players and coaches, and the average of six computer rankings. The Coaches' Poll was contractually required to name the winner of the game as its No. 1 team on the final postseason ranking; hence...

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