alabama won the last 4 bcs national championships.
who won the last 4 bcs national championships?
alabama
since 1893, the crimson tide and tigers have played 83 times. alabama leads the series 46–36–1. the game has been played in four cities: auburn, birmingham, montgomery, and tuscaloosa. alabama leads the series in birmingham (34–18–1). auburn leads the series in tuscaloosa (7–5) and auburn (9–5). the series is tied in montgomery (2–2). alabama leads the series since it was resumed in the modern era in 1948 (42–29). for the first time in the series history, five consecutive iron bowl winners went to the bcs national championship game: alabama in 2009, auburn in 2010, and alabama again in 2011 and 2012. auburn also went in 2013, but lost to florida state. alabama's 2009 bcs national championship followed by auburn's 2010 bcs national championship marks the first time that two different teams from the same state won consecutive bcs national championships.
iron bowl
there was a bcs controversy in the remaining at-large team that was selected to play in the bcs bowl games. the california golden bears expected to get the invite, having only lost one game to the top-ranked and undefeated trojans. meanwhile, the texas longhorns had lost only one game as well - to the #2 and undefeated oklahoma sooners. in the 2004 ncaa division i-a football rankings on november 27, cal was in the #4 bcs position and texas was #5. texas remained idle the next saturday, but cal had defeated the southern mississippi golden eagles in a makeup game from hurricane ivan on december 4. going into the game, the golden bears were made aware that while margin of victory did not affect computer rankings, it did affect human polls and just eight voters changing their vote could affect the final standings. in a dramatic twist, texas, who had been left out of the bcs the year before because of the oklahoma loss in the big 12 championship, got enough voters to change their mind in the final vote and more computer points to slide into the bcs #4 slot. when the december 4 rankings came out, texas was in the #4 bcs position and cal was in the #5 position. texas edged california out of the #4 spot by a mere .0102 points. the final poll positions had been unchanged with cal at #4 ap, #4 coaches, and #6 computers polls and texas at #6 ap, #5 coaches, and #4 computer polls.
2005 rose bowl