Interesting Title Game Facts

Well at least interesting to me.

Some thing happened this year that has not happened since the inception of the BCS national championship game (granted 10 years is not very long). Every division’s championship game had a repeat contender.

For the rest of this post just remember FBS stands for Football Bowl Subdivision (old division 1) and 1-AA stands for Football Championship Subdivision because I refuse to use FCS when 1-AA is so handy.

10 years of the BCS championship game by the numbers

- No repeat champions

- No team has won two BCS championship games (that will change this year)

- 3 Teams have (or will have) played in 3 BCS title games: Oklahoma, Florida State, and Ohio State.

- No SEC team has ever lost when appearing in the BCS title game (Tennessee, LSU, and Florida).

- The Big 12 has most title game appearances (5) and most loses (3).

- No current Big East team has played in a title game (Miami (2) and VT (1) before they fled to the ACC).

- The ACC, Big Ten and Pac Ten have each only had one team make the title game [ACC – FSU (3), Big Ten – OSU (3), Pac Ten – USC (2)].

Looking at some of the interesting things from the last 10 years of championship games.

- In both 2006 and 2007 six out of the ten teams playing in the championship game played in the championship the previous year. Appalachian State (1-AA ), Northwest Missouri State (D-II), Mount Union (D-III), and Wisconsin Whitewater (D-III) have all appeared three years in a row.

- As stated earlier for the first time, each championship game has at least one repeat contender. The teams above plus Ohio State (FBS) and Sioux Falls (NAIA).

- Every team competing in a championship game has played in at least one other title game in the last 10 years. Mount Union has played in the most (8).

- 1-AA has had the most different teams compete in the championship game (12). FBS (11), D-II (8), D-III (9), and NAIA (7).

-The FBS has had the most different champions (9*), 1-AA comes in second (7), and all three other division have had 5 different champions.

- Longest winning streaks: Carroll College (4, NAIA), Appalachian State (3, 1-AA, current), Mount Union (3, D-II).

- Most appearances: Mount Union (8), Northwest Missouri State (5), Grand Valley State (5), and Carroll College (5).

* This will not change with OSU and LSU having already won a championship.