The Bowl Championship Series was put in place beginning with the season. Known for its combination of polls and computer selection methods, the BCS did not have a standalone title game until the season. From through , the top two teams squared off for the national championship via a rotating group of four elite bowls: the Fiesta Bowl, Sugar Bowl, Orange Bowl and Rose Bowl. Here are the BCS Championship contests from through The national title was determined through the BCS National Championship Game for the season through the season.
The championship was a standalone contest that pinned the top two ranked teams entering bowl season. Here is the winner from each BCS National Championship Game the BCS named its championship games based on the year in which the game was played, not the season as a whole :. The CFP puts the top four ranked teams in a single-elimination bracket with semifinals being played in bowl games. Here are the final scores for the CFP National Championship game since it crowned its first champion in the season the College Football Playoff also names its championship games based on the year in which it is played :.
The title game is set for Jan. This would be the catalyst for a larger change less than a decade later that would drastically change the conference landscape. Steve Spurrier was back in college coaching with a new gig at South Carolina. Urban Meyer took over at Spurrier's old gig, Florida. Charlie Weis began his Notre Dame era. Of course, Bush would eventually vacate the award after it was deemed he received improper benefits while at USC. Those three players treated us to arguably the greatest college football championship game of all time as Young's Texas Longhorns beat USC in a back-and-forth battle in the Rose Bowl.
For once, the BCS game wasn't controversial as the best two teams played for the title in the best backdrop possible. What could be more strange to college football than a season where everything seemingly fell into place? Even as the world of college football was changing behind the scenes.
For starters, the national champion was LSU -- the first time a team that had lost two games during the season won the title. Well, there were an extraordinary amount of upsets during the season that created a void of elite teams. For example, the only BCS school to finish with one loss was Kansas.
The season started with a bang as FCS school Appalachian State went into Ann Arbor and beat 5 Michigan, in what possibly may be the biggest upset in college football history. That began a trend of thirteen times an unranked team beat a top ten team during the season Notre Dame lost to both Army and Air Force. The "Curse of the 2" became a catchphrase as the 2nd-ranked team would lose seven times in the final nine weeks of the season.
Three times during the season, the 1 and 2 ranked teams lost on the same day it hadn't happened once in the prior 11 years. And that happened twice in the final two weeks of the season! At one point, Missouri vs Kansas was the biggest game of the season.
LSU jumped five spots in the BCS rankings in the final week to miraculously get a spot in the title game. In all five BCS bowl games, the lower ranked team upset the higher ranked opponent. Including LSU, ironically ranked 2, who beat 1 Ohio State to become the first and only 2-loss national champion.
North Carolina fired Butch Davis just before the season started due to an improper benefits investigation would eventually unearth widespread academic misconduct that rocked the entire athletic program. Ohio State was rocked by a scandal where players traded items for gifts or favors.
Five Buckeyes were suspended and head coach Jim Tressel resigned. The biggest story, however, was the Penn State-Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal that appalled the nation. The AD and president were charged with perjury as part of a cover-up of Sandusky's behavior while with the program. While head coach Joe Paterno wasn't found to be part of a cover up, his inaction would ultimately cause the school to fire him on November 9th.
He died of lung cancer 74 days later. We also saw the beginning of a conference realignment shakeup that would impact college athletics for years to come. The Tigers would win that game, , but would fall in the rematch in the BCS championship game a game that helped lead to an eventual playoff system. The WAC, which had been around for 50 years, discontinued football. Ed Orgeron would take over and lead the Trojans to a finish but Washington's Steve Sarkisian accepted the permanent head coaching position On the field was just as crazy.
Georgia Southern went into The Swamp and beat Florida. Northern Illinois' Jordan Lynch set the record for rushing yards by a quarterback in a game And the the end of the season happened.
Ohio State, who had been dominant the previous year under a postseason ban, went into the Big Ten title game a win away from a BCS berth. Michigan State stunned the Buckeyes to end their hopes at a national title. And then there was Auburn. Against Georgia, the Tigers completed a 4th-and miracle pass for a 73 yard touchdown with 25 seconds left for what would be dubbed "The Prayer at Jordan-Hare".
Two weeks later, Auburn would return a missed field goal attempt as time expired for a touchdown in "the Kick Six" against Alabama, ending the Tide's title hopes. The two played an absolute classic. Florida State stormed back from a deficit to take a lead off a kickoff return for a touchdown.
The two teams traded touchdowns in the final minutes, which ended with Winston's 2-yard TD pass to Kelvin Benjamin for the win. The season began with the Big Ten and Pac 12 among other conferences postponing their entire seasons, which in turn created a fierce outrage from those schools' players and parents. Both those leagues would eventually start back up in the middle of the season with extremely light schedules.
Notre Dame joined the ACC for a one year run. Most leagues played conference-only schedules. Games were being postponed or outright canceled so were bowls. The season was played with fluidity unseen in the sport for generations, while stadiums held limited or no fans. Microsoft and partners may be compensated if you purchase something through recommended links in this article. Pepper Snapple Group the "Presenter". All federal, state and local laws and regulations apply. Open to legal residents of the United States and Washington D.
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