BCS
National Championship Game
The BCS National Championship Game, or BCS National
Championship, is the final bowl game of the annual Bowl
Championship Series (BCS) and is intended by the organizers of the
BCS to determine the U.S. national champion of the NCAA Division I
Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly known as NCAA Division I-A).
The participants are the two highest-ranked teams in the BCS
standings at the end of the regular college football season,
currently determined by averaging the results of the final weekly
USA Today Coaches' Poll, Harris Interactive Poll of media, former
players and coaches, and the average of six participating computer
rankings.
Since the formation of the Bowl Championship Series, there have
been several controversies regarding the schools selected to
participate in the BCS National Championship Game. Most notably,
following the 2003 season, the BCS ranking system selected the #3
ranked school in the Associated Press writers' poll, the University
of Oklahoma, over the #1 ranked school in that poll, the University
of Southern California, to participate in the National Championship
Game (the Nokia Sugar Bowl) despite Oklahoma's decisive loss to
Kansas State in the 2003 Big 12 Championship Game. 2003 is the only
season, to date, since the inception of the BCS in which the
national championship has been split, with Louisiana State
University winning the BCS national championship and the University
of Southern California winning the AP national championship and the
FWAA national championship.
The BCS National Championship for the 2011 season at the
Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, LA will be held on January
9, 2012, sponsored by Allstate, and televised on the ESPN
television network. The game will feature the same conferences #2
Southeastern Conference West Division Runner-Up Alabama and the #1
Southeastern Conference West Division Champions LSU. This is first
time in the history of the BCS that two teams from the same
conference (and also from the same division of the same conference)
have met for the BCS National Championship.
Now I must make a disclaimer. I and TnL Crew are not fans of the
BCS system. Never have been. But, this is an important bowl game in
the world of collegiate football, so we decided to add this one to
the bowl series.
Now
for the Letterbox (you will find a stamp and ink pad inside if you
wish to use).
1.
At starting cords you should be standing near a blue thing sticking
out of the ground;
2.
Face west;
3.
Look to 10:00 o’clock;
4.
Walk 13 paces or approximately 26 feet;
5.
STOP;
6.
Look down at the base of the bushes;
7.
Claim your prize;
8.
Stamp or sign the cache log and use the stamp for your own
letterbox if you wish.