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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 ...
Since the establishment of the team in 1895, OU has appeared in 57 bowl games and has a record of 31 victories, 26 losses, and one tie. [2] Oklahoma is one of only two schools to have appeared in all five of the BCS era bowl games (2001 Orange, 2003 Rose, 2004 Sugar, 2007 Fiesta, 2009 BCS NCG), with the other being Ohio State. [ 3 ]
Since the establishment of the team in 1889, Washington has appeared in 42 bowl games (the 1938 Poi Bowl the Huskies played in is regarded as an unsanctioned bowl game). [1] Included in these games are 14 appearances in the Rose Bowl Game, one Bowl Championship Series (BCS) game appearance, and two College Football Playoff (CFP) berths.
As of 2017, one bowl game (the Celebration Bowl) exists for FCS, four bowls serve Division II, and ten exist for teams in Division III (not including the Stagg Bowl, which is the name for the NCAA Division III Football Championship game). Community college bowl games, not sanctioned by the NCAA, are also listed.
In all other latter-day polls, champions were selected after bowl games. [56]: 112–119 During the BCS era, the winner of the BCS Championship Game was automatically awarded the national championship of the Coaches Poll and the National Football Foundation. Selectors are listed below with years selected retroactively in italics.
National championship games have been staged in a formal, pre-scheduled structure since the implementation of the Bowl Championship Series, though other, more circumstantial, national championship contests have taken place (and been widely viewed by contemporary sources as such) prior to that. A list of such "national championship games", as ...
A standalone National Championship game is held roughly a week later. [1] Beginning in the 2024–25 season, the Playoff will expand to twelve teams, with four rounds. The first round will be played on campus sites, the quarter-finals and semi-finals rotating among the same six Bowl games, along with the standalone National Championship game.
Facing the Huskies were the Buffalo Bulls with a regular season record of 8–5, highlighted by an upset win over then-No. 12 [Note 3] and undefeated Ball State in the 2008 MAC Championship Game. [24] This was the second time, after the 2004 Motor City Bowl, that the Huskies faced the MAC champions in a bowl game.