High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Bowl Championship Series (BCS) is a selection system designed to force a "national championship game" between the top-ranking teams (in the BCS rankings) in American college football`s top division, the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS, formerly known as Division I-A). This championship is intended as a surrogate for a playoff system since the NCAA does not formally determine a champion in this category. There has often been controversy as to which two teams should be able to play for the national championship and which teams should play in the four other BCS bowl games (Fiesta Bowl, Orange Bowl, Rose Bowl, and Sugar Bowl). The BCS is also often criticized for its inequality of access to the "Big 5" bowl games for teams in non-Automatic Qualifying (non-AQ) conferences, the inequitable distribution of revenues from those games, and for the BCS`s apparent assumptions that argue teams from non-AQ conferences are by definition inferior to Automatic Qualifying (AQ) conferences without arguing any rational explanations or reasons for those assumptions. Congress has explored the possibility on more than one occasion of holding hearings to determine the legality of the BCS under the terms of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, and the United States Justice Department has also periodically announced interest in investigating the BCS for similar reasons.