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When is the 2008 BCS National Championship Game?

January 7, 2008.

Ohio State Buckeyes vs. LSU Tigers

Where will the 2007 BCS National Championship Game be held?

The Superdome in New Orleans.

BCS Championship Game Picks

Louisiana Superdome
LSU Tigers vs Ohio State Buckeyes
Monday Jan. 7th, New Orleans
Spread:  LSU -4
Over/Under Total:  49
By JR Valdez

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 2008 National Champion of College Football will be determined in The Superdome in New Orleans. 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. 7, 2008

The Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana plays host to the biggest college football game of the season.

Betting odds for the 2008 BCS Championship on Jan. 7 - Bet on the nation's top two teams take the gridiron in search of college football immortality. BCS Betting odds on #1 and #2 college football teams in the nation. The BCS national game is determined by a combination of polls and computer formulas to decide the BCS National Championship. The Allstate Bowl features excellent and memorable games over the past years that Allstate Bowl fans really admired.

College Bowl TV schedules

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

As of the 2006-07 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 2007, 2008, and 2009. FOX 61's 2007 BCS schedule is below. FOX 61 will also air the BCS Championship from New Orleans in 2008 and from Miami in 2009.

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.)

BCS - 2006 - 2007 College Bowl Championship Series Winners

The Bowl Championship Series (BCS) is a five-game arrangement for post-season college football that is designed to match the two top-rated teams in a national championship game and to create exciting and competitive matchups between eight other highly regarded teams in four other games.

Access for teams without automatic berths will expand significantly beginning with the 2006 regular season, when the fifth game is added to the BCS structure. Four at-large berths will beavailable, as opposed to the previous two.Prior to 1998, the Big Ten and Pac 10 conferences did not participate in the series, so scheduling a definitive championship game was somewhat "hit or miss". #2 1994 Penn State and #1 1997 Michigan played in the Rose Bowl as part of of their conference's contractual obligation. There have also been several controversies regarding the formula the Bowl Championship Series uses for selecting the participating teams. Despite these problems, the game has succeeded in producing a winner that has captured or shared the National Championship in every season since it began play.

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2008 BCS National Championship Game Results

January 7, 2008 LSU 38, Ohio State 24

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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