Context: The Bowl Championship Series (BCS) was a selection system that created five bowl game match-ups involving ten of the top ranked teams in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of American college football, including an opportunity for the top two teams to compete in the BCS National Championship Game. The system was in place for the 1998 through 2013 seasons and in 2014 was replaced by the College Football Playoff., History.
Even after the emergence of the professional National Football League (NFL), college football remained extremely popular throughout the U.S. 
Although the college game has a much larger margin for talent than its pro counterpart, the sheer number of fans following major colleges provides a financial equalizer for the game, with Division I programs  the highest level  playing in huge stadiums, six of which have seating capacity exceeding 100,000. In many cases, college stadiums employ bench-style seating, as opposed to individual seats with backs and arm rests. This allows them to seat more fans in a given amount of space than the typical professional stadium, which tends to have more features and comforts for fans. (Only two stadiums owned by U.S. colleges or universities  Papa John's Cardinal Stadium at the University of Louisville and FAU Stadium at Florida Atlantic University  consist entirely of chairback seating.), The Texas Longhorns football program is the intercollegiate team representing the University of Texas at Austin (variously Texas or UT) in the sport of American football. The Longhorns compete in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly Division I-A) as a member of the Big 12 Conference. The team is coached by Tom Herman and home games are played at Darrell K Royal  Texas Memorial Stadium in Austin, Texas., The 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season, or the college football season, began on September 2, 2009, progressed through the regular season and bowl season, and (aside from all-star exhibition games that followed the bowl games) concluded with the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) National Championship Game in Pasadena, California on January 7, 2010, featuring the Alabama Crimson Tide, defeating the Texas Longhorns for the National Championship by the score of 3721., William Mack Brown (born August 27, 1951) is a former American college football coach. He was most recently head football coach of the Texas Longhorns football team of the University of Texas at Austin. He is currently a college football commentator for ESPN., The 2009 Texas Longhorn football team ( variously `` Texas '' or `` UT '' or the `` Horns '' ) represented the University of Texas at Austin in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season . The team was coached by Mack Brown . Texas played their home games in Darrell K Royal -- Texas Memorial Stadium . The Longhorns finished the season 13 -- 1 , and 8 -- 0 in Big 12 play . They represented the Big 12 South Division in the Big 12 Championship Game where they defeated Nebraska 13 -- 12 to become Big 12 Champions . The team finished the regular season ranked # 2 in the Bowl Championship Series to earn a berth in the BCS National Championship Game where they were defeated by Alabama 37 -- 21 . Texas finished the season ranked # 2 in the AP and coaches poll ., Subject: 2009 texas longhorns football team, Relation: sport, Options: (A) american football (B) football (C) national collegiate athletic association (D) sport
Output: american football