BCS Championship Game
Beginning with the 2006 College Football season, the National Championship Game will be a separate event from the host bowl played at the same site as the host one week after New Year's Day. The game's location will rotate between the four main bowl sites of
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Many critics of the Bowl Championship Series favor a full scale championship tournament with eight to sixteen teams, similar to that administered by the NCAA for its Division I-AA, Division II and Division III football championships. Others favor adopting the incremental step of adding a single post-bowl championship game between the winners of two BCS games among the top four ranked teams in the BCS standings, the so-called "plus one" option.
However, a lot of football traditionalists strongly oppose a playoff system because of concerns that a playoff would destroy the bowl game tradition and reduce the importance of games played during the regular season. Critics of a playoff often point to the NFL where leading teams will often bench their starting players in the final few games of the regular season because a loss will cause no harm. This does not happen in the BCS because such an action would be almost certain to cost a team the chance to play for the championship.
The BCS National Championship Game or BCS title game is the final game of the annual Bowl Championship Series intended by Series organizers to determine the NCAA Division I-A national football championship. The game was first played at the conclusion of the 1998 College Football season after the Big Ten and Pac 10 conferences and the Rose Bowl Game joined the members of the former "Bowl Alliance" to form the Bowl Championship Series. The Bowl Alliance and its predecessor, the Bowl Coalition, featured championship games from 1992 through 1997.
During the Bowl Coalition and Bowl Alliance era, without the participation of the Big Ten and Pac 10 conferences, scheduling a definitive championship game was somewhat "hit or miss." For instance, 1994 #2
Since the formation of the Bowl Championship Series, there have also been several controversies regarding the formula used for selecting the participating teams. Most notably, following the 2003 season, the BCS ranking system excluded consensus No. 1 University of Southern California from the BCS Championship Game. See Bowl Championship Series#BCS controversies for a further discussion of these controversies.
Despite their respective problems, the Bowl Coalition, Bowl Alliance, and Bowl Championship Series championship games have succeeded in producing winners that have captured or shared the National Championship in every season since 1992.
After years of debate and question about a championship match-up to decide the best in NCAA football, The NCAA and the BCS have answered. 2007 will spotlight a new game to decide college football's National Champions - the NCAA Football National Championship! The new BCS National Championship game will take place one week after the BCS Bowl games have been played, and will showcase the two best team in Division I football in a battle for number one.
Each year, the BCS National Championship Game will change venues, rotating between the four venues that have hosted BCS games in the past. Future stadiums include Dolphins Stadium, Cardinals Stadium, The Superdome and the Rose Bowl. Cardinals Stadium in Glendale, AZ is set to host the inaugural BCS National championship game in 2007.
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