Editing College football (section)

===Bowl Alliance===

In 1995, the Coalition was replaced by the [[Bowl Alliance]], which reduced the number of bowl games to host a national championship game to three—the [[Fiesta Bowl|Fiesta]], Sugar, and Orange Bowls—and the participating conferences to five—the [[Atlantic Coast Conference|ACC]], [[Southeastern Conference|SEC]], [[Southwest Conference|Southwest]], [[Big Eight Conference|Big Eight]], and [[Big East Conference (1979–2013)|Big East]]. It was agreed that the No.1 and No.2 ranked teams gave up their prior bowl tie-ins and were guaranteed to meet in the national championship game, which rotated between the three participating bowls. The system still did not include the [[Big Ten Conference|Big Ten]], [[Pac-12 Conference|Pac-10]], or the [[Rose Bowl Game|Rose Bowl]], and thus still lacked the legitimacy of a true national championship.<ref name=hickok1/><ref name=BCS>{{cite web | title = BCS Chronology | publisher=FOX Sports on MSN | year = 2006 | url = http://www.bcsfootball.org/bcsfb/history | access-date =June 1, 2007|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070915010233/http://www.bcsfootball.org/bcsfb/history |archive-date = September 15, 2007}}</ref> However, one positive side effect is that if there were three teams at the end of the season vying for a national title, but one of them was a [[Pac-10]]/[[Big Ten]] team bound to the [[Rose Bowl Game|Rose Bowl]], then there would be no difficulty in deciding which teams to place in the Bowl Alliance "national championship" bowl; if the [[Pac-10]] / [[Big Ten]] team won the [[Rose Bowl Game|Rose Bowl]] and finished with the same record as whichever team won the other bowl game, they could have a share of the national title. This happened in the final year of the Bowl Alliance, with [[1997 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]] winning the [[1998 Rose Bowl]] and [[1997 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team|Nebraska]] winning the [[1998 Orange Bowl]]. Without the [[Pac-10]]/[[Big Ten]] team bound to a bowl game, it would be difficult to decide which two teams should play for the national title.