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	Rose bowl Stadium
		The Rose Bowl was first played in the year 1902 and was a big failure because of the disruptive crowd.
		In the year 1992, the bowl organizers availed the opportunity keeping in view the perpetual cry for a true national college football championship.
		They formed the Bowl Coalition to sponsor a yearly championship game between the Nation's two leading teams as adjudged by the Associated Press and USA Today/CNN poll.
	rosebowl040.tripod.com (377 words)

	ESPN.com: NCF - The History of the BCS
		But remember, these bowls were fierce competitors over the years, many times vying for the same teams, and trying to match the perfect combination that would fill the stands and captivate TV audiences around the country.
		The goal of the Bowl Coalition was to be able to match the highest-rated teams available from the pool of participating teams while keeping regional and traditional ties in place.
		Therefore, the Coalition allowed the Orange Bowl to hold its tie to the Big 8, the Cotton to the SWC, and the Sugar to the SEC, but allowed the Bowls to be flexible in choosing high-ranked opponents from the ACC, Big East and Notre Dame.
	espn.go.com /ncf/s/historybcs.html (1607 words)

	Bowl games and the national championship (from gridiron football) -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Even as bowl games proliferated in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, controversies shadowed them—for their commercialization of the amateur sport and prolonging of the season at the expense of academics—but resistance disappeared when the financial windfall from the televised contests became a major source of revenue for the top teams and conferences.
		The object is to roll one's bowls so that they come to rest nearer to the jack than those of an opponent; this is sometimes achieved by knocking aside an opponent's bowl or the jack.
		Bowl was born to a Cherokee mother and a Scotch-Irish father in North Carolina.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-234277 (892 words)

	The Sikh Coalition
		After speaking to Harvinder Kaur's supervisor, the Coalition faxed a letter to her employer, explaining the spiritual significance of the kirpan and citing past precedent where employers either allowed Sikh employees to carry the kirpan or where courts dismissed criminal charges against Sikhs for carrying the kirpan.
		The Sikh Coalition has previously addressed three separate cases where a Sikh was not allowed to enter a restaurant or club because he or she wore a turban..
		In all three cases, the Coalition was able to assist the victim vindicate their right to freely enter a business open to the public.
	www.sikhcoalition.org /newsletterw03262004.asp (2072 words)

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		The Bowl Coalition I (BCI) pool is composed of Notre Dame (provided they win 7 games), the ACC champ, the Big East champ, and the two highest ranked runners-up from the ACC, Big East, Big 8, PAC-10 and SWC.
		The Bowl Coalition II (BCII) pool is composed of the remaining three conference runners-up.
		According to Roy Kramer, head of the bowl coalition, the 16 schools in the WAC were offered an at-large berth in the coalition with a ranking of no. 6 or higher.
	www.cae.wisc.edu /~dwilson/rsfc/BowlRules.txt (446 words)

	The Cotton Bowl gets the cold shoulder - new bowl coalition - College Football Report - Column Sporting News, The - ...
		When a new bowl coalition was formed last week, the winners were the Fiesta, Orange and Sugar bowls, which will begin staging quasi national championship matches on New Year's Day 1996.
		All the details of the new bowl coalition have not been worked out yet, but the Fiesta Bowl, which was the high bidder (at about $116 million) will get first choice in two of the first four years of the six-year contract.
		The Gator Bowl made a strong run at being part of the coalition but ran into the fear of weather problems in Jacksonville as well as a reluctance among the commissioners to leave the Orange Bowl.
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	BCS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		To that end, the Bowl Coalition was formed in 1992 and was updated and renamed the Bowl Alliance in 1995 in an attempt to keep the bowl system intact while forcing an annual championship game between the regular season's two top-ranked teams.
		The Fiesta Bowl held the first national championship (#1 vs. #2) game under the Bowl Championship Series contract (Jan. 4, 1999), it was followed by the Sugar (Jan. 4, 2000) and the Orange (Jan. 3, 2001) and will continue at the Rose Bowl (Jan. 3, 2002).
		Regional consideration tie-ins include the ACC or Big East champion in the FedEx Orange Bowl, the SEC champion in the Nokia Sugar Bowl, the Big Ten and the Pac-10 champion in the Rose Bowl presented by ATandT and the Big 12 champion in the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl.
	www.nku.edu /~issues/fall2001/bcs/BCS.html (574 words)

	FOX Sports on MSN - BCSFootball - BCS, Alliance & Coalition Games Year-by-Year
		The Coalition was formed to increase the likelihood of matching the top two teams in the nation while creating other exciting bowl pairings that would appeal to fans and would be based on the full season's results.
		Fiesta Bowl: (6) Syracuse 26, (10) Colorado 22
		Fiesta Bowl: (3) Nebraska 31, (5) Tennessee 21
	www.bcsfootball.org /bcsfb/timeline (1802 words)

	Fiesta Bowl Tickets - Buy / Sell Fiesta Bowl Tickets
		At the time, the "big four" bowl games, the Cotton, Orange, Sugar, and Rose, had contracts with the major conferences whose champions were guaranteed selection.
		In 1992, the Fiesta Bowl was invited to participate in the Bowl Coalition, a predecessor to the Bowl Championship Series, assuring the game would feature major conference champions or prestigious runners up, and the possibility of hosting further national title games.
		On January 1, 2007, the undefeated and untied Boise State Broncos became the 2007 Fiesta Bowl Champions by defeating the Oklahoma Sooners 43-42 in overtime.
	www.nwtix.com /Fiesta_Bowl_Tickets.html (1046 words)

	Sporting News, The: The Cotton Bowl gets the cold shoulder - new bowl coalition - College Football Report - Column
		When a new bowl coalition was formed last week, the winners were the Fiesta, Orange and Sugar bowls, which will begin staging quasi national championship matches on New Year's Day 1996.
		All the details of the new bowl coalition have not been worked out yet, but the Fiesta Bowl, which was the high bidder (at about $116 million) will get first choice in two of the first four years of the six-year contract.
		The Gator Bowl made a strong run at being part of the coalition but ran into the fear of weather problems in Jacksonville as well as a reluctance among the commissioners to leave the Orange Bowl.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1208/is_n7_v218/ai_15666623 (934 words)

	NCAA Football - CBS SportsLine.com
		A coalition team would have to be ranked 12th or higher in the final BCS ratings (or higher than the lowest-ranked BCS champion).
		But in four of the previous six years of the BCS, a coalition team would have qualified for a BCS bowl under the new 2006 standards: Tulane in 1998, Marshall in 1999, TCU in 2000 and Miami (Ohio) in 2003.
		Delany said that ABC and the Rose Bowl are "very near the end of the process" of a new deal beginning in 2006.
	www.sportsline.com /collegefootball/story/7550630 (747 words)

	alliance
		Herein lies the biggest problem with the bowl coalition: the national championship would still be largely controlled by the AP sportswriters and the USA Today/CNN coaches polls.
		This would not only kill the appearance that the bowls are "selling out," but would also allow every game hosted by a bowl to be meaningful.
		As for the smaller bowls, such as the Sun Bowl and Holiday Bowl, they could invite teams which are not in the playoff.
	www.umich.edu /~msjrnl/backmsj/011397/alliance.html (1096 words)

	The NCAA News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Under the bowl system as it existed before the BCS and its predecessors (the Bowl Coalition and the Bowl Alliance), each of the conferences whose champions have guaranteed slots in a BCS bowl had a bowl arrangement for its champion or had been offered such an arrangement.
		Yet before the formation of the Bowl Coalition in 1992, the New Year's Day bowl games that had open slots would often effectively commit to a team after seven or eight weeks of the season.
		One of the major innovations of the Bowl Coalition was to allow the bowls to defer their team selections until the full results of the season were in, thus creating the best match-ups possible.
	www.ncaa.org /news/2003/20030901/editorial/4018n27.html (1287 words)

	HickokSports.com - History - College Bowl Games
		Although they weren't called bowls, many other post-season games were played during the early 1930s to raise money for various charitable efforts that had been established to raise money for the growing number of unemployed.
		Among them were the Cigar Bowl in Tampa, the Camellia Bowl in Lafayette, Louisiana, the Delta Bowl in Memphis, the Dixie Bowl in Birmingham, the Great Lakes Bowl in Cleveland, the Harbor Bowl in San Diego, the Oil Bowl in Houston, the Raisin Bowl in Fresno, and the Salad Bowl (!) in Phoenix.
		The three-year Bowl Coalition agreement was replaced before the 1995 season by the Bowl Alliance, which included only the Fiesta, Orange, and Sugar Bowls, along with six major conferences and Notre Dame.
	www.hickoksports.com /history/collbowl.shtml (1383 words)

	Texas Kicks Off to Safer Super Bowl
		Over the years, members of Grand Prairie Mobilizing for Change on Alcohol (GPMCA) noticed that the Super Bowl was causing super-sized problems in their community---especially related to underage drinking.
		GPMCA used the Super Bowl to launch a comprehensive Responsible Beverage Service (RBS) effort to train retail establishments and enforce alcohol laws in Grand Prairie.
		Using the Super Bowl as a launching pad, coalition members implemented a community-wide effort to promote and educate retailers about RBS.
	www.marininstitute.org /take_action/texas_safe_superbowl.htm (543 words)

	Bowled over - 1994 college football bowl assignments Sporting News, The - Find Articles
		Now that the last bowl pairing of the 1994 college football season has been announced, and the end of the great experiment known as the Bowl Coalition is upon us, the question is: Did it work?
		Tranghese's point is that the Coalition did put some sanity into the bidding process in that it prevented bids from being handed out before mid-October.
		With the exception of the Pac-10 champion and Big Ten champion, who are committed to the Rose Bowl, the Fiesta will be able to put together any matchup of champions it wants among the highest ranked teams.
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	Arts & Leisure: Color of Money (Nashville Scene . 12-13-99)
		For once, there are no pretenders in some other bowl waiting to march on the palace should the top-ranked team stumble.
		But bowl organizers, eager to sell tickets to the large fan bases that big-state schools provide, have rushed to secure tie-ins that bring them only middling teams from major conferences.
		Prairie View Bowl: Reprising last year's infamous "battle of the bands" between Prairie View and Southern, the marching bands of the participating football teams attempt to knock each other off the field using whatever instruments are at hand--including tubas, flutes, and flugelhorns.
	weeklywire.com /ww/12-13-99/nash_cl-sports.html (891 words)

	newsobserver.com \| Mickle, who developed first Bowl Coalition, dies
		Mickle was architect of the original Bowl Coalition in 1992.
		He was an integral part of the negotiations of the ACC's football and basketball TV agreements that increased revenues and exposure.
		In January 2002, Mickle was named executive director of Florida Citrus Sports, which operates the Champs Sports Bowl and Capital One Bowl in Orlando.
	www.newsobserver.com /714/story/429751.html (294 words)

	BOWL SCOUTS WILL BE OUT IN FORCE IN BLACKSBURG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		That would mean at the Gator Bowl Dec. 30 in Gainesville or Jan. 2 at the Carquest Bowl in Miami.
		Under the terms of the Bowl Coalition, the Carquest is not able to make a deal yet, but Braine said the bowl has told him Tech is its top choice.
		Braine said the $3 million Fiesta Bowl would probably only be interested in Tech if several scenarios develop, one of which is Notre Dame failing to reach the seven victories it needs to qualify for a coalition spot.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1994/vp941116/11160605.htm (759 words)

	Online NewsHour: Fiesta Bowl- January 5, 1999
		Tulane, which was not included in the playoff series, also finished undefeated, and that's one of the problems with the college bowl system, that a team can go undefeated and still not be given a chance to compete for the national championship.
		But the point - they will rotate and the Fiesta Bowl had the first crack last night, but the other bowl games, because they didn't involve the national championship game the ratings were down.
		The Rose Bowl, which is the oldest and most traditional of the bowl games, was down 39 percent in its television rating, which is a huge drop, and it was an excellent football game.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/sports/jan-june99/football_1-5.html (1072 words)

	The BCS and other bowl association that has lead to a decade of bamboozle, corruption, and sham within NCAA I-A college ...
		With the success of the 1992 and 1993 seasons, and several bowl/conference contracts expiring after the 1994 seasons the Bowl Alliance was organized to improve the chances of a national championship game.
		As with the previous bowl organizations, the champions of the ACC, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-10, and the SEC are guaranteed participation in a BCS bowl game.
		As the non-championship BCS bowls select their teams from these conference champions, previous regional considerations are used.
	www.geocities.com /byulawguy/BCSpaper.htm (3570 words)

	SU Athletics - Syracuse and the Bowl Scene (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Most bowls had at least one at-large spot, which could be filled by any team that the bowl felt was worthy.
		That was followed by the Bowl Alliance, with the Fiesta, Sugar and Orange Bowls to place the two highest-ranked teams in each of those three, in an effort to match the number 1- and 2- ranked teams.
		The SEC and Big XII were particularly aggressive in their efforts by shoring up bowls whose future was in jeopardy, e.g., Independence and Holiday Bowls, and using leverage to start new bowls for their member schools, e.g., Music City, Mobile and Gallery Furniture.com bowls.
	www.suathletics.com /sports/gen/2001/bowl.asp (867 words)

	The Bulldog News - BulldogNews.net - NCAA Corruption Research Report
		Though the Bowl Coalition could not guarantee a “national title game,”after two years of a split title, in 1992, the Coalition produced a national title game between Big East champion Miami and SEC champion Alabama, and again in 1993 between Florida State of the ACC and Nebraska of the Big Eight.
		When an Alliance Bowl hosted the title game that bowl would get the first and second teams, and the remaining bowls were allowed to swap picks to attractively fill their games.
		In respecting former bowl affiliations, regional consideration include the ACC and Big East champions in the Orange Bowl, the SEC champion in the Sugar Bowl, the Big Ten and the Pac-10 champions in the Rose Bowl, and the Big 12 champion in the Fiesta Bowl.
	www.bulldognews.net /NCAA-corruption.html (9771 words)

	BCS Poll : BCS Bowl Championship Series : BCS College Bowl System : College Football Bowl System (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Bowl Championship Series (BCS), the National Collegiate Athletics Association's (NCAA's) eight-year-old attempt to escape establishing a college football playoff, is the center of controversy again.
		The 1992 Bowl Coalition -- The Bowl Coalition was created to increase the likelihood of matching the top two teams in the nation while at the same time creating other exciting bowl game matchups that would appeal to fans and would be based on the full season's results.
		The executive directors of the bowl games select those teams they feel are most deserving of the group of winners to play in their contests.
	www.sportsbusinesssims.com /bcs.bowl.championship.series.htm (3383 words)

	STATEMENT OF JAMES E (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Bowl Championship Series began in 1998 with two primary goals: (1) to bring to college football fans a true national championship game every season matching the number 1 and number 2 teams in the nation in a traditional bowl game; and (2) to create other exciting bowl matchups involving highly regarded teams.
		As the bowl system developed over the last century, a number of bowl games developed relationships with various conferences.
		The Coalition arrangement expired after the 1994 season, as did a number of the individual conference/bowl affiliation arrangements.
	www-unix.oit.umass.edu /~splaw431/delany.htm (3710 words)

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