The Story of the College Football National Championship Game

The Story of the College Football National Championship Game — page 3
adding extra games to the postseason would be too much of a physical burden on the players But eventually the push to determine a champion on the field was too strong to ignore So the Bowl Coalition was developed in 1992 followed by the Bowl Alliance in 1995 Not every conference agreed to participate but these moves brought college football closer to crowning a true champion Finally the Bowl Championship Series BCS was created in 1997 College football finally had a system in place that guaranteed that the top two teams would face each other for the national title The BCS originally used existing bowl games to decide the national champion The title game moved Who’s number one That was often a much-debated topic before the BCS era 6