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The game was the first BCS National Championship Game not televised on network television, instead being aired on ESPN [4] and simulcast on ESPN3, and recorded a 16.1 rating, the highest overnight rating on record for a cable television program, topping the previous high of 14.4, set by New England Patriots vs. New Orleans Saints on ESPN in ...
The view from the 50-yard line for the 2010 BCS National Championship at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California (Alabama vs. Texas). The BCS National Championship Game, or BCS National Championship, was a postseason college football bowl game, used to determine a national champion of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), first played in the 1998 college football season as one of ...
BCS Championship game at the Rose Bowl, Pasadena, California, January 7, 2010, Alabama vs. Texas. The Bowl Championship Series (BCS) was a college football post-season selection system that created four or five bowl game match-ups involving eight or ten of the top ranked teams in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of American college football, including an opportunity for the ...
Since the establishment of the team in 1895, OU has appeared in 57 bowl games and has a record of 31 victories, 26 losses, and one tie. [2] Oklahoma is one of only two schools to have appeared in all five of the BCS era bowl games (2001 Orange, 2003 Rose, 2004 Sugar, 2007 Fiesta, 2009 BCS NCG), with the other being Ohio State. [3]
ABC televised the game, as well as the Rose Bowl; Fox televised the remainder of the BCS. The match-up was the final BCS game to air on broadcast television, with cable network ESPN taking over all Bowl Championship Series telecasts starting in 2011, [7] and also the last national championship game to be televised on broadcast television until ...
On December 4, 2011, the final Bowl Championship Series standings were unveiled with LSU ranked first, followed by Alabama, to set up a rematch between the two teams in the 2012 BCS National Championship Game. [56] [57] In the weeks that led up to the game, the notion of a split national championship became a major storyline.
The 2003 Fiesta Bowl between No. 1 Miami and No. 2 Ohio State featured two of the most talented teams of the BCS era. ESPN Is Airing A Classic BCS National Title Game This Evening Skip to main content
[3] [23] In 2009, Saban led the Crimson Tide to the BCS National Championship Game, and defeated Texas 37–21 to clinch the program's first national title of the BCS era. [ 3 ] [ 23 ] A year after Alabama defeated Michigan State in the 2011 Capital One Bowl , the Crimson Tide defeated LSU in the BCS National Championship Game to clinch the ...