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The first post-regular season conference championship game played in Division I-A football (what is now Division I FBS) was the 1992 SEC Championship Game, won by Alabama over Florida. [2] The SEC had gone from being a 10-team conference in 1991 , to being a 12-team conference—divided into two six-team divisions—in 1992 . [ 3 ]
Winner was to be awarded a presidential plaque by game attendee Richard Nixon declaring them "the number-one college football team in college football's one-hundredth year." [9] This was the final regular season game, and it determined the Coaches Poll title. Entering the game, Arkansas ranked No. 3 in the Coaches Poll and remained No. 3. [243 ...
In the 4-team era of the College Football Playoff, lasting from 2014 until the 10th tournament in 2023, 32 of the 40 teams selected for the College Football Playoff were undefeated or 1-loss conference champions from one of the Power Conferences. Three 1-loss Power Conference teams were selected without playing in their conference championship ...
Ohio State's 34-23 win against Notre Dame in the College Football Playoff championship game will earn the Buckeyes a spot in history as the first champion in the 12-team playoff format. Ohio State ...
The power conferences are all part of NCAA Division I, which contains most of the largest and most competitive collegiate athletic programs in the United States, and the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), which is the higher of the two levels of college football within NCAA Division I. [3] It is unknown where the term "Power Conference" originated; it is not officially documented by the NCAA ...
The series between the two colleges, which are 17 miles (27 km) away from each other in the Lehigh Valley, is the most played rivalry in college football history with 158 meetings since 1884. This is a list of rivalry games in college football. The list also shows any trophy awarded to the winner of the rivalry between the teams. [a]
Oregon State: The Beavers are Pac-12 champions. Oregon State won the battle for bragging rights in the two-team conference with a 41-38 home win over Washington State.
BCS Championship game at the Rose Bowl, Pasadena, California, January 7, 2010, Alabama vs. Texas. The Bowl Championship Series (BCS) was a college football post-season selection system that created four or five bowl game match-ups involving eight or ten of the top ranked teams in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of American college football, including an opportunity for the ...