Bowl Championship Series

The BCS stands for Bowl Championship Series, a computer ranking format and bowl setup that has decided the unofficial but de facto NCAA Division I-A national football championship since 1998. The BCS has been criticized often, but was especially controversial in both the 2003-2004 and 2004-2005 seasons. In 2003, five teams finished the regular season with one loss, with no unbeaten team, while in the following season, the same number of teams finished the regular season unbeaten. In both seasons, three of the five teams had legitimate cases for playing in the BCS title game. Most recently, additional controversy has come from the decison by the Associated Press to prohibit the BCS from using their rankings in the BCS formula, and by ESPN to remove itself from the USA Today coaches poll.

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NCAA Division I-A national football champions - 2003 - 2004 - 2005 - BCS title game - Associated Press - ESPN - USA Today

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