``One Ring to Rule Them All''...in the World of Division 1A College Football; Jostens Unveils Official National Champ Ring for Bowl Championship Series.Sports Editors/Football Writers & Columnists NOTE TO MEDIA: Multimedia assets available MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 5, 2002 No, it's not the Lord of The Rings, it's the Lord of All Rings: the new Bowl Championship Series (BCS (1) (The British Computer Society, Swindon, Wiltshire, England, www.bcs.org) The chartered body for information technology professionals in the U.K., founded in 1957. ) national champ ring, which is being unveiled today by the BCS and Jostens, makers of 24 of 36 Super Bowl rings and the official NCAA Basketball This article is about the Nintendo game. For the collegiate sport, see College basketball. NCAA Basketball (known as World League Basketball championship ring. "This special ring represents the ultimate achievement in college football," said Al Nuness, vice president of sports sales for Jostens. "Jostens is proud to have been selected by the BCS to craft this ring and become part of a great new tradition in college football." "The BCS Committee is excited about our partnership with Jostens and the ability to present student athletes with a lasting keepsake for being a member of the No. 1 team in the nation," said Michael Tranghese, commissioner of the BCS and the Big East Football Conference. The exclusive Jostens BCS championship ring is made of 10K white gold with a faceted stone-within-a-stone design. It features a black onyx football with the number "1" carved out of it, surrounded by 66 zirconia stones. The ring highlights on the shanks
The shanks and tattlers are wading bird species in a number of genera characterised by a medium length bill and long, often brightly coloured legs. , or sides of the ring, include the team's logo, player's name and game score, as well as the name of the bowl game. The championship ring meets all the guidelines of the NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association , making it the official ring of the bowl series. This is the first time in college football history that a ring will be presented by the BCS governing body Noun 1. governing body - the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something; "he claims that the present administration is corrupt"; "the governance of an association is responsible to its members"; "he to the players on the national championship team. To date, only NCAA Division 1 Basketball has presented a commemorative winner's ring to its national champions. The Bowl Championship Series is a group of the six major football conferences (Big Ten, Big 12, SEC, PAC-10, ACC See adaptive cruise control. and Big East) whose objective is to place the two highest-rated college football teams in one of four bowl games to determine a national champion. The bowl games are: the Rose Bowl, Fed Ex Orange Bowl, Nokia Sugar Bowl and the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl The Fiesta Bowl, now sponsored by Tostitos tortilla chips (a Frito-Lay product), is a United States college football game played annually since 1971. Originally, the game was hosted in Tempe, Arizona at Sun Devil Stadium where it remained until 2006. . The national championship game rotates each year between these four bowls. This season, the championship game is the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl in Tempe, Ariz. In addition to the BCS championship ring, Jostens has also been commissioned to create first-ever players' rings for both the Rose Bowl and the Fed Ex Orange Bowl. Minneapolis-based Jostens is a provider of products, programs and services that help people celebrate important moments, recognize achievements and build affiliation. The Company's products include commemorative and class rings, yearbooks, graduation products, school photography, and products for athletic departments and their fans. Note: A Photo is available at URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.090502/bb9 |
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