The College Football Bowl Coalition consisted of five member conferences ( SEC, Big 8, SWC, ACC, and Big East) along with independent Notre Dame and seven bowl games ( Orange, Sugar, Cotton, Fiesta, Gator, Sun, and, for the 1992 season only, the Blockbuster Bowl). Following two consecutive seasons of split national championships ( 19), there was a renewed interest in devising a system that would provide for a #1 vs. Due to often rigid existing bowl tie-ins, and various conference regulations, it was not uncommon that the two top-ranked teams at the end of the regular season would never meet on the field, even when there was a clear-cut #1 and #2. Since the Associated Press began crowning its national champion in 1968 following the bowl games, the two top-ranked teams going into the bowls had faced one other in a bowl only six times, most recently in the 1987 season. It was the predecessor of the Bowl Alliance (1995–1997), and later the Bowl Championship Series (1998–2013) and the College Football Playoff (since 2014). The agreement was in place for the 1992, 1993, and 1994 college football seasons.

It was established for the 1992 season after there were co-national champions for both 19. The College Football Bowl Coalition was formed through an agreement among Division I-A college football bowl games and conferences for the purpose of forcing a national championship game between the top two teams and to provide quality bowl game matchups for the champions of its member conferences. Florida, Florida St., Miami (FL), Nebraska, Notre Dame (3)

1993 1994 block buster gaming champ