Bowl Championship Series Future Schedules
SCHEDULE OF GAMES, JANUARY 2011
For the fourth straight year, the BCS includes a fifth game, significantly increasing access for teams without automatic berths. Four at-large berths will be available, as opposed to the previous two, which had been in place during the first nine years of the BCS. The schedule for January, 2001, is as follows:
January 1 Rose Bowl presented by Citi (Pasadena, CA)
January 1 Tostitos Fiesta Bowl (Glendale, AZ)
January 3 Discover Orange Bowl Bowl (Miami Gardens, FL)
January 4 All State Sugar Bowl (New Orleans, LA)
January 10 BCS National Championship Game presented by Citi (Pasadena, CA)
REVENUE
Before 1998, conferences and teams that did not play in the "major" bowl games received no revenue from those games. In the first nine years of the BCS arrangement, more than $80 million was distributed to conferences that do not have an annual automatic berth to one of the BCS bowls.
THE BCS IS WORKING
The BCS has succeeded in meeting its goals. The nation’s No. 1 and No. 2 teams met only eight times in bowl games in the 57 seasons between 1936 and 1992, when the "bowl coalition" (a predecessor of the BCS) was created. No. 1 and No. 2 have met ten times in the 16 years since 1992. In the nine previous years of the BCS, the coaches’ poll No. 1 and No. 2 have met six times.
THE BCS IS NOT...
* ..... a playoff system. It is nothing more than an attempt to match the No.1 and No. 2 teams within the bowl system and to create exciting matchups in four other bowl games.
* ..... an exclusive system that rewards only a few. As the University of Utah demonstrated in 2005, Boise State University in 2007 & 2010, and TCU in 2010, a team from a conference without an annual automatic berth can by superior play, earn a berth in a BCS bowl game.
ECONOMIC IMPACT
* The total economic impact in the host cities from the five BCS games in January, 2008, is estimated at more than $1.2 billion.