The concept of Bowls working together in harmony to create the best match up possible was a dramatic departure from the selection process that had dominate college football for almost a century. The Coalition was an immediate success, matching No.
In , No. At this point, however, the Big Ten, Pac and the Rose Bowl were not participating so no true national champion could be determined without them.
Consequently, Kramer's work went on. The Bowl Alliance Three years later, in , the Coalition evolved into the Bowl Alliance, a slimmed down version of Bowls including only the Fiesta, Orange, and Sugar -- but with one major twist, a rotation which guaranteed No. Taking the initiative of giving up conference ties was another huge step forward for the bowls. The benefits from the tremendous exposure of matching the No.
The rotation was intriguing because it would ultimately would allow all of the participating bowls to have their turn in the spotlight. In , the Alliance matched No. Already, in just four tries, the Coalition and Alliance had been able to accomplish twice what the AP had only been able to accomplish eight times in 56 years. That is match the No. The final piece of the long awaited puzzle fell into place after the season when the Big Ten, Pac and Rose Bowl realized the benefits of the Alliance and joined the fold.
This came after No. Bring on the BCS. The Bowl Championship Series With every major conference and all of the major Bowls on board for the first time in history, college football was assured of finally being able to match the top two teams in the nation every year. The outstanding question then became how do we determine the top two teams? Enter Charles Bloom. Bloom is the director of media relations for the SEC and is generally known as the mastermind behind the formula itself.
According to Bloom, the initial objective was to simply combine the AP and coaches polls, but several key sportswriters nixed the idea stating "we want to report the news, not create it. As a result, Kramer and Bloom spent substantial time formulating goals and ultimately concluded a more objective system needed to be instituted.
After all, the AP and coaches polls were very subject to personal bias. That's not to say they are, but they can be. However, Virginia Tech turned to a freshman who had begun to make a name for himself during the season. That freshman, Michael Vick, sparked an amazing comeback for the Hokies, displaying a combination of passing and running rarely seen at any level of football.
Despite taking a lead, the Hokies ran out of gas, and Warrick continued his dazzling day, adding a key two-point conversion and a yard TD grab. Though Vick finished with passing yards and 97 rushing yards, it was Warrick who took home Most Outstanding Player honors for his yard receiving effort and the punt return TD.
And it was the legendary Bobby Bowden who capped his first undefeated season with a national championship. But the real winners were the fans, both the crowd at the game and the massive television audience. They had seen a true national championship game between a team from the Atlantic Coast Conference and a team from the Big East Conference.
And it had happened in the Sugar Bowl. The Bowl Championship Series had brought together all of the conferences and the major bowls to guarantee the match-up, regardless of previous affiliations or contracts. In just its second season, the BCS had proven itself a success. The BCS has continued to evolve through the years; rules were changed, the ranking systems were tweaked, an additional game was added and more access was given to teams from around the country.
If BCS supporters thought this would satisfy everyone, they were wrong. The events of the season would ultimately bring about the demise of the BCS. USC did make the title game following the season. The matchup of the 12—0 Trojans against Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl might have felt like a victory for the BCS, but with 12—0 Auburn stuck in the Sugar Bowl with no chance to win the national title, no one in SEC country was happy. The angriest of all was SEC commissioner Mike Slive, who vowed his league would never have another undefeated champion denied a chance at a national title.
Meanwhile, fans and media demanded that coaches poll voters reveal their final ballots after Cal was denied an at-large berth and Texas was awarded a berth in the Rose Bowl. The changes did produce less controversy in the title game selections, but the BCS produced arguably its greatest unintended effect during these middle years. While the schools in the non-BCS leagues tried to figure out how to win entry into the other six, the power conferences were playing their own game.
Louisville, acting independently of any conference, informed the Big East it would be leaving as well. But would bring another vote, and one final BCS controversy would doom the system and usher in the playoff era. As the fans at Jack Trice Stadium poured onto the field, it felt like another earthquake.
The loss threw the Cowboys, who almost certainly would have faced LSU in the BCS title game had they been undefeated, into a beauty contest with one-loss Alabama. Voters and computers chose Alabama, setting up an all-SEC national title game that would guarantee that league its sixth consecutive national title. A day after the bowl selections were announced, Big 12 athletic directors voted in a straw poll to support scrapping the BCS in favor of a four-team playoff.
It would be replaced by a system that is more fun, more interesting, more lucrative and just as controversial. While the BCS roasts in hell rewatching the Oklahoma-Connecticut Fiesta Bowl for all of eternity, please enjoy a week of stories looking back on a system that changed college football forever. All this thinking about has inspired me to rank the top 10 songs of that year. No algorithms were used in this ranking.
I probably should just list the other tracks on Aquemini and call it a day, but we have to give some other people a chance. Admit it. You wanted to drive a gold tank onto a basketball court. Heck, I still want to do that. Fromm, who earlier this year had to get a piece of crankbait removed from his leg , continued his string of Extremely Georgia Injuries when, according to UGASports.
At this point, the only injury more Georgia than the ones Fromm already has suffered involves a Dale Murphy—signed bat falling out of the sky. Last week, Long was hired to replace Sheahon Zenger at Kansas. Alabama tailback Najee Harris told the San Francisco Chronicle that he considered transferring during a freshman season that started slow but ended with a major role in the second half of the national title game.
At 6'2" and pounds, comparisons to former Crimson Tide back Derrick Henry were inevitable. Henry was barely used in before breaking out in a Sugar Bowl loss to Oklahoma.
He played a much bigger role as a sophomore and then won the Heisman Trophy as a junior. If that frustrating freshman year leads to sophomore and junior seasons for Harris that come close to the ones Henry had, Harris and the Tide will be thrilled.
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