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College Football: Who Is Really No. 1 At the conclusion of each college football season the Bowl Alliance selects the nation’s top football teams to play in select bowls. The way the Bowl Alliance selects who plays in the bowls, and because college football doe ....

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.... guarantee a match-up between the top two teams in the nation each year, a new system was setup prior to the 1998 season. This new system setup by ABC Sports and the NCAA is called the Bowl Championship Series or BCS for short. The Bowl Championship Series is a point system that selects what college football teams will play in one of the four major bowls. The bowls in the BCS include: the Rose Bowl, the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl, the Nokia Sugar Bowl, and the FedEx Orange Bowl. Not only does the BCS decide who plays in those bowls, but also who will play for the right to be crowned national champions. The way the system works is somewhat complicated b ....