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Jenni Carlson
1/7/2014, 08:40 AM
Last night's epic title game between Florida State and Auburn marked the final BCS bowl game, the last of 72 postseason contests since the system was put in place prior to the 1998 season. The BCS was very far from perfect ( if not downright corrupt ), but over its lifetime it managed to put together more than a few excellent college football matchups. Were there some blowouts? Sure. Were there a few games in which it seemed like neither offense came back from Christmas break? You bet. But there were also many spectacularly entertaining classics that we're going to attempt to rank. The following games are rated subjectively and pretty much arbitrarily on things like number of points scored, overtimes, star players doing star player things, and fun endings. Blowouts and great defense can be entertaining in their own right, but for this list we're focusing mainly on high-scoring, competitive (there's one 37-point exception) games. Also, the amount of entries from 2014 isn't recency bias but an acknowledgement that we were just blessed with the best overall group of BCS games in the system's history. 21) 2006 Orange Bowl: Penn State 26 Florida State 23 (3OT)

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