BCS Title Game
Future
Beginning with the 2006 College Football season, the National Championship Game will be a separate event from the host bowl played at the same site as the host one week after New Year's Day. The game's location will rotate between the four main bowl sites of Glendale, New Orleans, Miami Gardens and Pasadena.
Future sites
- January 8, 2007 Cardinals Stadium, Glendale, Arizona
- January 8, 2008 Louisiana Superdome, New Orleans, Louisiana
- January 8, 2009 Dolphins Stadium, Miami Gardens, Florida
- January 8, 2010 Rose Bowl, Pasadena, California
Potential evolution
Many critics of the Bowl Championship Series favor a full scale championship tournament with eight to sixteen teams, similar to that administered by the NCAA for its Division I-AA, Division II and Division III football championships. Others favor adopting the incremental step of adding a single post-bowl championship game between the winners of two BCS games among the top four ranked teams in the BCS standings, the so-called "plus one" option. However, many football traditionalists strongly oppose a playoff system because of concerns that a playoff would destroy the bowl game tradition and reduce the importance of games played during the regular season. Critics of a playoff often point to the NFL where leading teams will often bench their starting players in the final few games of the regular season because a loss will cause no harm. This does not happen in the BCS because such an action would be almost certain to cost a team the chance to play for the national championship