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The Coaches Poll began awarding post-bowl championships in 1974. National champions crowned by pre-bowl polls who subsequently lost their bowl game [31] offered an opportunity for other teams to claim the title based on different selectors' awards and rankings, [14] such as the post-bowl FWAA Grantland Rice Award [32] or Helms Athletic ...
The College Football Playoff National Championship is a post-season college football bowl game, used to determine a national champion of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), which began play in the 2014 college football season. [1]
This category is for team pages of teams that won a college football national championship; see also: College football national championships in NCAA Division I FBS and NCAA Division I Football Championship
The reigning national champions are the North Dakota State Bison, who have won 10 championships since the 2011 season. The FCS is the highest division in college football to hold a playoff tournament sanctioned by the NCAA to determine its champion, as the College Football Playoff currently used by the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) is not ...
From its formation in 2014 to the end of the 2023 season, the College Football Playoff used a four-team knockout bracket to determine the national champion.Six bowl games—the Rose Bowl, Sugar Bowl, Orange Bowl, Cotton Bowl, Fiesta Bowl, and Peach Bowl– rotated as hosts for the semifinals. [16]
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), founded in 1906, is the major governing body for intercollegiate athletics in the United States and currently conducts national championships in its sponsored sports, except for the top level of football. Before the NCAA offered a championship for any particular sport, intercollegiate ...
The National Championship Foundation (NCF) was established by Mike Riter of Hudson, New York.The NCF retroactively selected [citation needed] college football national champions for each year from 1869 to 1979, [1] and its selections are among the historic national champions recognized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in its Football Bowl Subdivision record book.
A national championship game is a college football game played for the purposes of, or under the circumstances which would allow, declaring the winner to be the national champion. National championship games have been staged in a formal, pre-scheduled structure since the implementation of the Bowl Championship Series, though other, more ...