1998–99 NCAA football bowl games
1998–99 NCAA football bowl games | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Season | 1998 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Number of bowls | 22 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowl games | December 19, 1998 – January 4, 1999 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
National Championship | Fiesta Bowl | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Location of Championship | Sun Devil Stadium Tempe, AZ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Champions | Tennessee | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1998–99 NCAA football bowl games concluded the 1998 NCAA Division I-A football season. In the first year of the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) era, Tennessee defeated Florida State in the 1999 Fiesta Bowl, designated as the BCS National Championship Game for the 1998 season.
A total of 22 bowl games were played between December 19, 1998 and January 4, 1999 by 44 bowl-eligible teams.[1] Two new bowl games were established in 1998–99: the Oahu Bowl and the Music City Bowl.
Non-BCS bowls
BCS bowls
Date | Time | Game | Site | Result | Ref. |
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Jan 1 | 4:30 PM | Rose Bowl | Rose Bowl Pasadena, CA |
No. 9 Wisconsin 38, No. 6 UCLA 31 | |
8:30 PM | Sugar Bowl | Louisiana Superdome New Orleans, LA |
No. 3 Ohio State 24, No. 8 Texas A&M 14 | ||
Jan 2 | 8:00 PM | Orange Bowl | Miami Orange Bowl Miami, FL |
No. 7 Florida 31, No. 18 Syracuse 10 | |
Jan 4 | 8:00 PM | Fiesta Bowl (BCS National Championship Game) |
Sun Devil Stadium Tempe, AZ |
No. 1 Tennessee 23, No. 2 Florida State 16 | |
Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game. All times are in Eastern Time.[2] |
References
- ^ "1998 College Football Bowl Games". Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved December 14, 2018.
- ^ a b "Bowl schedule". The Baltimore Sun. December 10, 1998. p. 143 – via Newspapers.com.