Bcs 1998 national championship game

The new ranking system is the sport's latest attempt to ensure the nation's two best teams play each other in a national championship game by ranking Div. I-A football teams based on their strength of schedule, total losses and ranking in major polls run by the media and coaches. This year the Fiesta Bowl will host what is being billed as the "national championship" game where the top two teams in the BCS ranking will square off January 4. However, due to the imperfect nature of this and any other non-playoff system, there could very well be arguments at the end of the season about who the national champion should be.

For example, a team could win the rest of its games and finish the season undefeated but, due to their strength of schedule, they could be shut out of the national championship game. Updated February 28, Michael Morrison. Bowl Championship Games. See also:. Trending Here are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about.

The Chinese Zodiac. Once we finally got through that hurdle, we felt good about our chances. Nguyen: Nobody was giving us an opportunity.

The season before in San Antonio, Nebraska had blown us out in the Big 12 title game. We just wanted to keep this one close to give ourselves a chance. Slocum: He had been limited for quite a bit. He couldn't go full speed. Getting ready for that game, there was this doctor from the Austin area. One of our alums in San Antonio had a wife in a car accident and had gotten to know the doctor.

He called me, and said, 'I've got this friend that might be able to help Sirr Parker. Our training staff was immediately skeptical of it. Wednesday, this doctor comes in. Parker hadn't been able to practice all week. Parker: Dr. Susan Grimshaw. It was strange what she did. But she could feel the energy in her hands. She dug her thumb into my leg.

Then she had me hold a single ice cube on my leg until it melted. That was it. I was healed percent. Everybody was calling her the 'Voodoo Doctor. Slocum: David Cutcliffe, when he was at Ole Miss and getting ready to play Mississippi State, called me about that doctor and sent a plane to pick her up. It worked for his guy, too. Snyder: It wasn't a total surprise to us that Parker performed well. But it wasn't anything you were initially overly concerned about.

We didn't take him lightly, but it wasn't something we were out practicing every day for some of the things he did. Slocum: Randy McCown broke his collarbone in our last regular season game, so we were minus our starting quarterback. We went to Branndon Stewart. When his opportunity came, he was ready for it. I'm not sure anyone knew how to handle it. K-State had never been in that position before.

It was a different kind of pressure. He was our D-coordinator. The surprise was when Coach Mark Mangino left on the other side of the ball. To have three guys leave the staff -- that is a major distraction. It's hard to put a game plan together when you might not be there.

We did our best. But players read newspapers, they know they're losing their coaches. That takes a toll. Obviously we weren't prepared well enough to be able to overcome it. Mike Stoops, K-State assistant : I don't remember it being a distraction.

I remember having the chance to get to the national championship. You're obviously all in to what we were doing. Not many times in life you're in that position. You understand how important it is for Kansas State. You could tell by my reactions in the press box, which were normal, that we were into the game.

Clements: There were more distractions leading up to that game than there needed to be. The computers are telling you, it doesn't matter if you win or not, you don't deserve to be there.

Then there's talk about our coaches leaving. Mark Simoneau, K-State linebacker : We started the game very fast. We had control of the game. McDonald: After that touchdown in the second quarter, I get to the sideline and everyone started roaring. Nguyen: They announce Miami beat UCLA, and their fans start throwing tortillas on the field, because they're going to the Fiesta Bowl to play for the national championship.

Snyder: I had asked before the ballgame, I had asked the people up there, the announcers if they would refrain from announcing the score of the UCLA ballgame. Then all of a sudden, here it comes. They weren't paying any attention to me, that's for sure.

But I can't fault a P. We didn't play or coach well enough in the fourth quarter. Parker: The fans throwing tortillas, it was somewhat disrespectful. It wasn't K-State. It was the fans. But it got us motivated. Slocum: We were point underdogs. The same problems Wentz had in Philadelphia reared their ugly head for much of the season in Indianapolis.

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Roethlisberger has passed for 5, passing yards in the playoffs in his career. Joe Montana is in fourth place all-time with 5, and Brett Favre is in third with [more]. The NFL is giving us six games over. Watts is expected to compete for a starting spot from day one. They should get one for the NFC divisional round Jan. Buckle up, this could be a bit of a rough ride for a little bit Steve Young couldn't understand Sean McVay's second-half thought process in the Week 18 regular-season finale between the Rams and 49ers.

Here is Sal Maiorana's in-depth game preview. Per a report, two assistant coaches could be moving on from Georgia. Read full article. More content below. Alabama Crimson Tide. Max Molski. In this article:. Live Today Tomorrow vs - -. The history of college football championship games originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago A new college football champion will be crowned next Monday. Story continues.