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BCS National Championship History

Last year marked the first time in the history of the BCS there will be an official National Championship game. Instead of one of the Big Four Bowls (Sugar, Rose, Fiesta, Orange) being the national championship, they added a fifth game that will be the big one. The four bowls will still happen, the fifth and final game will come after those and will be called the BCS National Championship game. It will rotate through the four sites just like it had under the previous system.

In 2005, the National Championship was the Rose Bowl. It featured two of the most storied teams in recent memory the USC Trojans and the Texas Longhorns. Both teams met up in the game undefeated and it was everything the world hoped and more. After trailing USC by a count of 38-26, with only less than seven minutes to go, the Longhorns jumped on the back of their superstar Vince Young. He led the team to a touchdown to move the score to 38-33 still in favor of USC. The Trojans would try to convert a fourth down on the ensuing drive and the Texas defense held strong and stopped them. That’s when Vince put on a display that the world had never seen. The Longhorns offense had moved all the way down to the USC eight-yard line with less than thirty seconds left in the game. It was fourth and five from the eight and Young got the ball, looked to pass and ran to his right and got in the endzone with fifteen seconds left in the game. He would run in the two-point conversion also to put the Horns up 41-38. The Trojans would get a couple of shots at moving into field goal position, but they came up short. In one of the greatest games ever, the Longhorns became National Champions for the first time in over three decades.