The 1997–98 NCAA football bowl games concluded the
1997 NCAA Division I-A football season
The 1997 NCAA Division I-A football season, play of college football in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association at the Division I-A level, began in late summer 1997 and culminated with the major bowl games in ...
. In the third and final year of the
Bowl Alliance era,
Nebraska
Nebraska ( ) is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders South Dakota to the north; Iowa to the east and Missouri to the southeast, both across the Missouri River; Ka ...
defeated
Tennessee
Tennessee (, ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Kentucky to the north, Virginia to the northeast, North Carolina t ...
in the
1998 Orange Bowl
The 1998 Orange Bowl was played on January 2, 1998, and served as the Bowl Alliance's designated national championship game for the 1997 season. This 64th edition of the Orange Bowl featured the Nebraska Cornhuskers of the Big 12 Conference an ...
, designated as the Bowl Alliance national championship for the 1997 season. AP-No. 1 ranked
Michigan
Michigan ( ) is a peninsular U.S. state, state in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest, Upper Midwestern United States. It shares water and land boundaries with Minnesota to the northwest, Wisconsin to the west, ...
defeated
Washington State
Washington, officially the State of Washington, is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is often referred to as Washington State to distinguish it from the national capital, both named after George Washington ...
in the
1998 Rose Bowl, which was not a part of the Bowl Alliance. Michigan was awarded the national championship by the
AP Poll and Nebraska by the
Coaches Poll.
A total of 20 bowl games were played between December 20, 1997, and January 2, 1998, by 40
bowl-eligible teams.
Two new bowl games were added this year: the
Motor City Bowl (now known as the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl), and the
Humanitarian Bowl (now known as the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl).
Non-Bowl Alliance bowls
Bowl Alliance bowls
References
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