fiesta bowl is the name of the national championship bowl game.
what is the name of the national championship bowl game?
fiesta bowl
the fbs season begins in late august or early september and ends in january with the college football playoff national championship game. most fbs teams play 12 regular season games per year, with eight or nine of those games coming against conference opponents. as of the 2018 season, all conferences will hold a conference championship game; the big 12 reinstated its championship game in 2017, and the sun belt will hold its first championship game in 2018. between conference games, non-conference games, a conference championship game, and one bowl game, a top fbs team could play 14 games in a season. a team that plays in the national championship game could play up to 15 games, as any team playing in the national championship must first win a playoff semifinal bowl game. the hawaii rainbow warriors and teams that play at hawaii get a special exemption and are allowed to play a thirteenth regular season game in order to defray travel costs, so an fbs team that plays 13 regular season games, a conference championship game, a semifinal bowl game, and in the national championship game could theoretically play 16 games in a season.
ncaa division i football bowl subdivision
the bowl championship series, famous for its use of math, was the successor of the bowl alliance (1995–1997), which was itself the successor of the bowl coalition (1992–1994). besides the many adjustments it underwent during its tenure, including a large overhaul following the 2004 season that included the replacement of the ap poll with the harris poll, the bcs remained a mixture of math and human polls since its inception in 1998, with the goal of matching the best two teams in the nation in a national championship bowl game which rotated yearly between the sugar, fiesta, rose, and orange bowls from 1998 to 2005, and later a standalone game titled the bcs national championship game (2006 to 2013). the winner of the bcs championship game was awarded the national championship of the coaches poll thus winning the afca national championship trophy. the bcs winner also received the macarthur bowl from the national football foundation. neither the ap poll, nor other current selectors, had contractual obligations to select the bcs champion as their national champion. the bcs resulted in a number of controversies, most notably after the 2003 season, when the bcs championship game did not include eventual ap champion usc, the only time the two championships have diverged since the advent of the bcs. after many seasons of controversy, the bcs was replaced with the college football playoff, a plus-one system aimed at reducing the controversy involved in which teams get to play in a championship game through use of a tournament.
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