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The 2009 BCS Bowl Championship Series Game - Fedex BCS National Championship When is the 2009 BCS National Championship Game? January 8, 2009. Where will the 2009 BCS National Championship Game be held? Dolphins Stadium in Miami, Florida.

BCS Championship Game Picks Oklahoma vs Florida (2)Florida Gators vs (1)Oklahoma Sooners 8:00 PM ET, January 8, 2009 Dolphin Stadium , Miami , FL FOX Spread:  Florida -3 Total:  72

Well, Sam Bradford won the Heisman trophy and with 4400 yards passing, 48 TD’s with only 6 INT’s and a 68% completion rate it is well deserved.  This guy passes for over 300yds/game like its taking candy from a baby.  I expect no less for the National Championship game, with a supporting cast the likes of WR Juaquin Iglesias and his 15.8 yards per catch and 2 count them 2 RB’s in Chris Brown and DeMarco Murray both breaking the 1000 yards rushing barrier, you can expect all kinds of scoring on January 8th. More...

How is the BCS Championship matchup determined?

The top two teams in the BCS standings at the end of the regular season – regardless of conference affiliation - qualify for the BCS Championship Game. The BCS standings are only used to determine the Championship Game matchup.

The 2009 National Champion of College Football will be determined in Dolphin Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. The Bowl Championship Series (BCS) comprises five games played at the end of the college football season. The games are the Orange Bowl, Sugar Bowl, Fiesta Bowl, Rose Bowl, and a new BCS Championship Game started last year it will rotate among the sites of the other four games.

The Bowl Championship Series was established before the 1998 season to determine the national champion for American college football, while maintaining and enhancing the bowl system that's nearly 100 years old.

The BCS has become a showcase for the sport, matching the best teams at the end of the season.

BCS National Championship Game — Jan. 8, 2009

The 2009 FedEx BCS National Championship Game will be hosted at Dolphin Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida on January 8, 2009, and will feature the #1 and #2 teams as determined by the BCS Rankings to decide the BCS National Championship.

College Bowl TV schedules

FOX 61 will air the Orange, Sugar, and Fiesta Bowls through 2010.

As of the 2008-09 season, the BCS will air primarily on FOX while only the Rose Bowl will continue to be aired on ABC.

FOX will also run the new BCS Championship Game in 2008, 2009, and 2010. FOX 61 will also air the BCS Championship from New Orleans in 2009 and from Miami in 2010.

BCS - Bowl Championship Series Description

Division I-A football is the only NCAA-sponsored sport without an organized tournament to determine its champion. Therefore, for any given year, there is usually no undisputed champion in Division I-A collegiate football. Ironically, NCAA football is the most popular NCAA sport and the one in which public interest in the "championship" is highest. The Bowl Championship Series (BCS) is the latest mechanism in series of controversial attempts to provide a "championship" game for NCAA Division I-A football.

The BCS is a computer ranking format and bowl setup that has decided the unofficial but de facto NCAA Division I-A national football championship since 1998. Among the criticisms of the BCS (and the bowl system in general), include the fact that the final ranking of Division I-A NCAA football teams is decided by arbitrary and subjective standards, much like beauty pageants. Observers point-out that the "champion" of the largest and most popular collegiate sport should not be decided by fiat. The BCS was especially criticized and deemed controversial in both the 2003-2004 and 2004-2005 seasons. In 2003, five teams (three from BCS conferences) finished the regular season with one loss, with no unbeaten team, while in the following season, the same number of teams finished the regular season unbeaten. In both seasons, three of the five teams had legitimate cases for playing in the BCS title game. Most recently, additional controversy has come from the decison by the Associated Press to prohibit the BCS from using their rankings in the BCS formula, and by ESPN to remove itself from the USA Today coaches poll.

Poll rankings Example

There are two predominant polls, one done by the AP and the other by USAToday, in which people who are interested in the sport vote on who they think is better than whom. In the AP poll, various sportswriters list who they think are the top 25 teams in the country; the first place team is given 25 points, the second place team gets 24, and so on down the ballot. These points are then added together, so that a team that all voters agree is the best will have 25 points for each voter. The other poll works similarly, but instead of sportswriters, the votes are cast by coaches. The AP poll has a slightly better track record, but for the purposes of the BCS, a team's rankings in both of these polls are averaged, so that a team ranked number 6 by the AP and number 8 by the coaches gets 7 BCS points from the poll rankings.

Computer Rankings

Credit for computer rankings is worked out similarly; there are now eight different organizations that do computer rankings that are counted in the BCS, of which the most reputable are the New York Times and Sagarin, respectively, and each team gets points equal to the average of its 7 best rankings. If a team is ranked 4th in four of them and 6th in the other four, it gets (4+4+4+4+6+6+6)/7=4.86 BCS points for this. (The lowest ranking is excluded primarily because some of the rankings can get rather capricious; a ranking of 27th by a single computer, if it were averaged in with the seven others, would by itself introduce 3 more points than if the ranking were 3rd.)

2009 BCS National Championship Game Results

January 8, 2008 Oklahoma vs Florida

LSU won its second BCS championship game in four years with a convincing 38-24 dispatch of Ohio State at the Superdome. More BCS Championship Year Results Click Here!

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