The 2011 Tostitos BCS National Championship Game will be the finale of the 2010-2011 Bowl Championship Series, and will be played at the University of Phoenix Stadium, the host facility of the Fiesta Bowl in Glendale, Arizona on January 10, 2011 (8:30 p.m. ET). This is the fifth time the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl earned its recognition among the nation’s four major bowl games, dating back to July 10, 1991 when it was invited to the Bowl Coalition. The Fiesta Bowl was selected to the Bowl Alliance in August 1994 and the BCS on three separate occasions – July 1997, April, 2005 and March, 2009. This will mark the second time that the National Champion under the BCS system's stand-alone game will be played in Arizona.
Written by SAL
January 2011 will be once again, like many others past years a month of exciting matches.
With the coming of the Bowl Championship Series (BCS); ten top rating team’s part of the eleven NCAA Football Bowl subdivision conferences conformed by the University of Notre Dame, Atlantic Coast, Big East, Big 12, Pacific-10, Big Ten, Sun Belt, Mountain West, Mid-American, Conference USA, Southeastern and Western Athletic.
This game was played for first time at the end of 1998 college football season due to an agreement between Pac-10 and the Big ten conferences; together with the Rose Bowl Game, they joined and formed the Bowl Alliance from which the Bowl Championship Series were created, and was designed to ensure that the 2 top ranks in the country meet in a National Championship game, making it more competitive and match among other 8 teams of high regard in four bowl game series.
The BCS series are known as the Rose Bowl Game, Allstate Sugar Bowl, Tostitos Fiesta Bowl, and Discover Orange Bowl that are played in their respective locations with the BCS National Championship Game played in one of these sites.
The matches for the Bowl Championship Series are the following:
Until 2014, all of these games will be broadcasted by ESPN. This will be an exclusive coverage of the five games and highlighted by top commentators and analysts. Plus the telecasting, ESPN will provide news, reports, and features through Pasadena California for the Rose Bowl to Glendale Arizona at the University of Phoenix Stadium, site of the 2011 Tostitos BCS National Championship Game.
Don’t Miss the coming games, The BCS promises to be full of action next year.
| Date Played | Winning Team | Losing Team | Bowl Game | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 4, 1999 | Tennessee | 23 | Florida State | 16 | Fiesta Bowl | |
| January 4, 2000 | Florida State | 46 | Virginia Tech | 29 | Sugar Bowl | |
| January 3, 2001 | Oklahoma | 13 | Florida State | 2 | Orange Bowl | |
| January 3, 2002 | Miami | 37 | Nebraska | 14 | Rose Bowl | |
| January 3, 2003 | Ohio State | 31 | Miami | 24 | Fiesta Bowl | |
| January 4, 2004 | LSU | 21 | Oklahoma | 14 | Sugar Bowl | |
| January 4, 2005 | Southern California | 55 | Oklahoma | 19 | Orange Bowl | |
| January 4, 2006 | Texas | 41 | Southern California | 38 | Rose Bowl | |