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1998, the BCS and that time Texas A&M ruined Kansas State's perfect season

The first year of the BCS proved to be among the wildest in college football history.

The wildest part of it all?

Kansas State, which a few years earlier had considered shuttering its football program, was just minutes away from playing in the national championship.

Going into the final weekend of the 1998 season, Tennessee, UCLA and K-State were all undefeated, generating a massive controversy in the debut year of the BCS.

The Wildcats were ranked No. 1 in the coaches' poll. But because of the computers, they needed help.

Improbably, help came. Immediately after Darnell McDonald's 66-yard touchdown catch put K-State up 17-3 over Texas A&M in the second quarter of the Big 12 championship game, the stadium announcement came: Miami had stunned UCLA.