it's the national championship trophy that is given to the winner of the national championship game that all NCAA conferences have agreed to be a part of. Not an independent poll voted on by sportswriters. Don't you see a difference there?
Exactly, in former years (before 1998) they would vote a national champion. Now, it is awarded directly after the game without a vote. Like I said earlier, we won our NC on the field, USC won their NC two days later when the AP awarded them with their NC in a vote.
I agree with both of you. The whole point of the BCS is to try to put together a national championship match-up, the winner of which is automatically awarded the Coaches Trophy, in a ceremony on the field right after the game ends. Because of that, the Coaches Trophy is the more prestigious trophy in popular culture nowadays.
It's not just that at all, it is the trophy that is given to the winning team in a system that all of the BCS conferences have agreed upon to be the national champions. We are in a BCS conference as are all other major conferences.
Here: BCS Background The BCS was established to determine the national champion for college football (however, it didn't work out, neither the NCAA nor the AP agreed to it, only the Coaches Poll did) Bowl Championship Series FAQ What is the BCS, anyway? The BCS is not an entity. Instead, it is an arrangement of five bowl games that are managed by the 11 Division I-A conferences and the University of Notre Dame together with the local bowl committees. The BCS isn't an entity; it is merely an event that the conferences and Notre Dame manage along with the bowls in order to create a matchup between the No. 1 and No. 2 team in a bowl game. (nowhere on the BCS site does it say that the conferences have agreed that the winner of the BCS is "the" National Champion. The BCS is simply an arrangement to give us the best bowl match-ups as possible while trying to cut through all the red tape of the various bowl committees.) The BCS is ... The BCS is ... The Bowl Championship Series (BCS) is a five-game arrangement for post-season college football that is designed to match the two top-rated teams in a national championship game and to create exciting and competitive matchups between eight other highly regarded teams in four other games. The BCS is not ... It is not a playoff system. It is nothing more than attempt to match the No. 1 and No. 2 teams within the bowl system and to create exciting matchups in four other bowl games. (there you go. The BCS is not trying to award a national championship, they leave that to the AP Poll and the Coaches Poll. Fortunately for the BCS, the Coaches Poll agreed to crown the winner of the BCS #1 vs #2 match-up with the Coaches Trophy)
