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BCS

football
Also known as: Bowl Championship Series
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Adam Augustyn
Adam Augustyn was a senior editor at Encyclopædia Britannica.
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BCS, former arrangement of five American college postseason football games that annually determined the national champion. The games involved were the Rose Bowl, the Orange Bowl, the Sugar Bowl, the Fiesta Bowl, and the BCS National Championship Game. In 2014 the BCS was replaced by the College Football Playoff. (Read Walter Camp’s 1903 Britannica essay on inventing American football.) The teams that participated in the BCS were drawn from the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS; formerly...

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