The 1998 NCAA Division I-A football season was the first of the Bowl Championship Series, which saw Tennessee win the national championship, one year after star quarterback Peyton Manning left for the NFL.
The Volunteers defeated the Florida State Seminoles 23-16 in the
Tostitos Fiesta Bowl in Tempe, Arizona to secure the inaugural BCS
National Championship.
The BCS combined elements of the old Bowl Coalition and the Bowl Alliance
it replaced. The agreement existed between the Rose, Fiesta, Sugar, and
Orange Bowls, the Cotton Bowl Classic diminishing in status since the
breakup of the Southwest Conference.
Like the Bowl Alliance, a national championship game would rotate
between the four bowls, with the top two teams facing each other. These
teams were chosen based upon a BCS poll, combining the AP poll, the
Coaches poll, and a third computer component. The computer factored in
things such as strength of schedule, margin of victory, and quality wins
without taking into account time (in other words a loss in October and a
loss in November were on equal footing).
However, like the Bowl Coalition, the bowls not hosting the national championship would retain their traditional tie-ins.
The first run of the Bowl Championship Series was not without
controversy as Kansas State finished third in the final BCS standings
but was not invited to a BCS bowl game. Ohio State (ranked 4th) and two-loss Florida
(8th) received the at-large bids instead. Also, Tulane went undefeated
but finished 10th in the BCS standings and was not invited to a BCS bowl
because of their strength of schedule.
Army broke away from almost one hundred years of tradition as an independent, joining Conference USA. Taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season
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