College Football Season Ticket: The Ultimate Fan Guide
1990 season highlighted involved It held hearings to examine what many believed was a broken system The the challenges Georgia Tech finished 11 0 1 after beating Nebraska decisively in the Citrus Bowl Colorado defeated Notre Dame in the Orange Bowl to go 11 1 1 However the Buffaloes season included a controversial win over Missouri in which they were mistakenly allowed a fifth down to keep a last-minute game-winning drive going In the end Georgia Tech topped the coaches poll by an 847 846 margin over Colorado But Colorado took the AP poll honor Others yet argued for Miami as the best team that season
A similar situation arose the next year The most dominant Washington team in program history went undefeated winning the coaches vote But Miami prevailed in the AP poll despite having one loss Then in 1997 Michigan and Nebraska led the way all season but they never met on the field Because the Rose Bowl was long tied to the Big Ten Michigan played its bowl game there The Orange Bowl had a tie-in to the Big 12 Conference where Nebraska played so the Huskers went there When both teams won their bowl games the writers favored Michigan and the coaches voted for Nebraska
08 Michigan's Jerame Tuman hauls in a touchdown pass in the Rose Bowl on January 1 1998
BCS created It was time for a change The Bowl Championship Series in 1998 aimed to do just that In this system the BCS combined polls with other factors to rank the teams Four major bowl games partnered with the BCS and one agreed each year to host a 1-vs 2 matchup regardless of conference affiliation This ensured there would be a true title game The BCS model still had flaws In 2003 the top three teams each had one loss going into the bowl games but only two could play each other for the BCS title So when the dust settled both Louisiana State University LSU and Southern Cal USC their bowl games and claimed won bragging rights The same thing happened
