The Coalition consisted of six bowls, with the Orange, Fiesta, Cotton, and Sugar bowls were all considered potential hosts for a national championship game.
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The 1994 Heisman Trophy presentation ceremony was held on December 10, 1994 at the Downtown Athletic Club in New York City.
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Also, John Hancock Insurance's deal for naming rights to the Sun Bowl expired and the game reverted to its former name.
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It would be the last bowl game for the Beavers until the 1999 season.
Wichita State discontinued their football program after the 1986 season and have never fielded a team since then.
The number of schools increased by 2 to 106 with the addition of the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs as an independent, and the SMU Mustangs of the Southwest Conference resuming play in the wake of the so-called "death penalty".
The 1990 NCAA Division I-A football season ended with a split national championship and the ensuing controversy helped lead to the creation of the Bowl Coalition, a precursor to the Bowl Championship Series.
The Hurricanes closed the 1991 season with a 22-0 shutout over #11 Nebraska in the Orange Bowl, but their season was defined by a dramatic November victory over then-#1 ranked and perennial rival Florida State.
Possibly in a show of how weak the conference was, Nevada went 5-1 in conference, winning the Big West championship and representing the conference in the 1992 Las Vegas Bowl (formerly the California Bowl held in Fresno, California).
The game was part of the 1995 NCAA Division I-A football season and was the concluding game of the season for both teams.
The 1995 CompUSA Florida Citrus Bowl, part of the 1994 bowl game season, took place on January 2, 1995, at the Florida Citrus Bowl in Orlando, Florida.
The 1996 NCAA Division I-A football season ended with the Florida Gators crowned National Champions, but not as unanimously as the Bowl Alliance would have hoped.
Kansas State would finish ranked #6 in the BCS the following season, only to be left out of the BCS once again.
The 1998 NCAA Division I-A football season was the first of the Bowl Championship Series, which saw Tennessee win the national championship, one year after star quarterback Peyton Manning left for the NFL.
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The agreement existed between the Rose, Fiesta, Sugar, and Orange Bowls, the Cotton Bowl Classic diminishing in status since the breakup of the Southwest Conference.
East Carolina faced Hurricane Floyd, and in that same week, faced the #9 Miami Hurricanes.
The 2002 Virginia Cavaliers football team represented the University of Virginia in the 2002 NCAA Division I-A football season.
On January 9, 2004, Ted Waitt, CEO of Gateway Computers offered the NCAA $31 million for a national championship game between USC and Louisiana State.
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The Orange Bowl game was noteworthy in that Miami and Florida State previously had scheduled to play each other on Labor Day in 2004.
The 2003 Virginia Cavaliers football team represented the University of Virginia in the 2003 NCAA Division I-A football season.
Texas coach Mack Brown was criticized for publicly politicking voters to put Texas ahead of California; Cal coach Jeff Tedford called for coaches' votes to be made public.
The 2005 NCAA Division I-A football season ended with the least amount of controversy surrounding the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) title game in many years.
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The victory earned the Longhorns their first consensus national championship since 1969.
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The BCS saw good fortune as two teams, the USC Trojans and the Texas Longhorns, went wire to wire as #1 and #2, respectively—the second year in a row that had happened—and finished as Division I-A's only undefeated teams after the regular season.
The 2005 Virginia Cavaliers football team represented the University of Virginia in the 2005 NCAA Division I-A football season.
The game features 24 teams from the 1992 season and 24 historical teams.
He served as interim head coach at the University of Texas at El Paso following the firing of Bill Michael two games into the 1981 season.
Miami won the first three Florida Cups awarded, having played Florida in the 2002 and 2003 regular seasons and the 2004 Peach Bowl.
Going into 2007, Dykes led a Mountaineers defense that was expected to improve dramatically with pass coverage, with the return of senior safety (Eric) Wicks and sophomore star safety Quinton Andrews.
During the 2000 season, an assistant football coach at Trezevant High School in Memphis claimed that Young had paid Lynn Lang, the Trezevant head football coach, approximately $150,000 to encourage defensive lineman Albert Means to sign with Alabama.
The North–South All-American Game (formerly known as the Las Vegas All-American Classic and the Paradise Bowl) is an annual post-season college football all-star game that was played each January or February from 2002 (for the 2001 season) to 2006 (for the 2005 season), and then took 2 years off due to lack of sponsorship.
In 1987, Coach Dick MacPherson finally led Syracuse to a resounding 48–21 victory over the Nittany Lions in the Dome.
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Syracuse won again the following year in Happy Valley but lost the last two games before the series was suspended in 1991.
The San Francisco State Gators football team represented San Francisco State University (Formerly San Francisco State Teacher's College) from the 1931 through 1995 seasons.
Construction began minutes after the Cardinal's last home game of the 2005 football season, a 38-31 loss to Notre Dame on November 26.
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Immediately following the 2005 season, the stadium was demolished and rebuilt as a dual-deck concrete structure, without a track.