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11 unusual facts about college football


2013 American Athletic Conference men's soccer season

Following a period of turmoil and near-constant turnover of membership, culminating in a split into two leagues along football lines, the schools that sponsor FBS football sold the Big East name to the non-FBS schools, which began operating as the Big East Conference in July 2013.

2013 Big East Men's Soccer Tournament

The 2013 Big East Men's Soccer Tournament was the inaugural men's soccer tournament of the new Big East Conference, formed in July 2013 after the original Big East Conference split into two leagues along football lines.

Brett Backwell

He was drafted to the elite AFL competition at number 67 selection in the 1998 AFL Draft, turning down offers from American universities to play American college football.

College Football's National Championship

Exhibition games and a tournament mode are available but not a regular season mode.Four players can play simultaneously with the help of the Team Player adaptor.Tournaments can be completely customized with either a customized schedule length and even a customized selection of opponents.

Jacob Davis Productions

JacobDavis Productions is known for creating card stunts for the National Football League, Major League Baseball, NASCAR, College football games, and the U.S. Treasury Department.

Poly-Turf

The stadium was used for both college and professional football, primarily by the University of Miami Hurricanes and the Miami Dolphins of the NFL.

Sahlen's Stadium

The stadium also hosts other sporting events such as collegiate soccer, Rochester Rhinos Elite youth soccer games and practices, American football, field hockey and drum and bugle corps competitions as well as concerts.

Temple Owls men's basketball

Before Temple became an all-sports member of the Big East, the conference split along football lines.

Tyler Layton

Layton's father was a radio announcer (including working as the colour analyst on Alabama Crimson Tide football radio broadcasts) and a sports journalist who encouraged her from an early age.

Yolo Causeway

The Causeway Classic College football game between the University of California, Davis and California State University, Sacramento and the Causeway Carriage trophy awarded to the winner of that game are both named after the Yolo Causeway.

Zone run

Most NFL and Division I NCAA football teams that rely on running the ball now use zone blocking schemes.


1950 Rose Bowl

The 1950 Rose Bowl was a college football bowl game played between Ohio State University and University of California at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California.

2006 California Golden Bears football team

The 2006 California Golden Bears football team represented the University of California, Berkeley in the college football 2006–2007 season.

2008 Alamo Bowl

The 2008 Valero Alamo Bowl is a college football bowl game that is part of the 2008–2009 bowl season of the 2008 NCAA Division I FBS football season.

2011 Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas

The 2011 Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas, the sixth edition of the game, was a post-season American college football bowl game, held on December 31, 2011 at Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas as part of the 2011–12 NCAA Bowl season.

2011 Sun Belt Conference football season

The 2011 Sun Belt Conference football season is a college football season for the Sun Belt Conference.

2012 Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl

The 2012 Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl, the 24th edition of the game, was a post-season American college football bowl game held on December 29, 2012 at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona as part of the 2012–13 NCAA Bowl season.

2012 Music City Bowl

The 2012 Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl was a post-season American college football bowl game held on December 31, 2012 at LP Field in Nashville, Tennessee in the United States.

2014 Heart of Dallas Bowl

The 2014 Heart of Dallas Bowl was an American college football bowl game that was played on January 1, 2014 at the Cotton Bowl at Fair Park in Dallas, Texas.

2014 Sun Belt Conference football season

The 2014 Sun Belt Conference football season will be the 14th college football season for the Sun Belt Conference.

Albert Connell

He played college football at Trinity Valley Community College in Athens, Texas for two years, and was a member of the 1994 Junior College National Championship team.

Angel Estrada

He played college football at West Virginia University.

Angus Reid

Reid missed three years of college football at Simon Fraser because of gastrointestinal problems linked to Crohn's disease but he played every CFL game from the 2002 to 2008 CFL seasons including the 92nd and 94th Grey Cups.

Anthony DeGrate

DeGrate was born in Waco, Texas and played college football for Stephen F. Austin.

Bob Swenson

Robert Charles Swenson (born July 1, 1953, in Stockton, California) played college football for the University of California.

Bowl Championship Series on television and radio

For example, despite both the historic nature of the 2007 BCS championship game (Florida's win gave it simultaneous Division I football and basketball championships, which had never before been accomplished) and the compelling 2007 Fiesta Bowl, Fox would not allow ESPN Classic (a sister network to rights co-holder ESPN) to show the games as "instant classics."

Brett Salisbury

Brett Jon Salisbury (born October 11, 1968 in Dayton, Ohio) is a former college football quarterback at University of Oregon, BYU, and Wayne State College.

Chris T. Johnson

He played college football for the Millersville Marauders in the NCAA.

Chuck Allen

Charles Richard Allen (born September 7, 1939 in Cle Elum, Washington) is a former American collegiate and Professional Football player.

Chuck Darby

He played college football for Willie Jeffries at South Carolina State.

Clarence Denmark

He played college football at Mississippi Delta Community College, Troy University, and Arkansas-Monticello.

Corey Lynch

Lynch played collegiate ball at Appalachian State University from 2003 to 2007, helping his Mountaineers win 3 back-to-back national championships in 2005, 2006 and 2007 .

Downtown Athletic Club

It was most famous for its annual awarding of the Heisman Trophy in its building, given every year to the most outstanding college football player, and named after John Heisman, the club's first athletic director.

E. J. Holub

In college, he played for Texas Technological College (now Texas Tech University).

ESPN Goal Line

The channel is active during three college sports seasons; during college football season as Goal Line, college basketball season as ESPN Buzzer Beater, and through the NCAA Division I Baseball Championship as ESPN Bases Loaded, providing live look-ins and analysis of games in progress.

Football Friday

Football Friday is a fast-paced program that covers everything from college football to the National Football League and even high school football.

Fort Worth Classic

The Fort Worth Classic was a postseason college football bowl game played only once, on January 1, 1921 in Fort Worth, Texas, between Centre College and Texas Christian University.

George Roark

He served as the head football coach at Westminster College of New Wilmington, Pennsylvania in 1936 and at Washington & Jefferson College from 1937 to 1940, compiling a career college football record of 18–18–3.

Glen Frey

Glen Frey was an American college football head coach who holds the distinction as being the New Jersey State Teachers College at Glassboro (now called Rowan University) program's first head coach.

Glenn Cameron

Cameron played college football for the University of Florida, and thereafter, he played professionally for the Cincinnati Bengals of the NFL.

Harry Long

He was the fifth head college football coach for the Tennessee State University Tigers located in Nashville, Tennessee and he held that position for the 1928 season.

J. C. Pearson

Pearson left Fox following the 2008 season to return to ESPN to call college football games on ESPN2 and ESPN with Dave Lamont.

John P. Koehler

He served as the head football coach at Lawrence Institute in Wisconsin, now Lawrence University, from 1904 to 1905, at the University of Denver from 1906 to 1910, and at Marquette University from 1914 to 1915, compiling a career college football record of 39–29–4.

Jonathan Linton

Prior to entering the NFL, Linton played high-school football at Catasauqua High School in Catasauqua, Pennsylvania and college football at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Jonathan Quinn

Quinn is the current head college football coach for the MidAmerica Nazarene Pioneers located in Olathe, Kansas.

Katie Hnida

Hnida is the third woman to have scored in a college football game, after Liz Heaston, who played for NAIA Willamette University in 1997, and Ashley Martin, who played for NCAA Division I-AA Jacksonville State University in 2001.

Margene Adkins

Margene Adkins played college football at Henderson County Junior College in Athens, Texas, before dropping out of school.

Nelio Dallolio

Nelio Dallolio was an American college football head coach at New Jersey State Teachers College at Glassboro (now called Rowan University), an NCAA Division III program in Glassboro, New Jersey.

Norman Passmore

was the seventh head college football coach for the Kentucky State University Thorobreds located in Frankfort, Kentucky and he held that position for the 1944 season.

North–South All-American Game

The North–South All-American Game (formerly known as the Las Vegas All-American Classic and the Paradise Bowl) is an annual post-season college football all-star game that was played each January or February from 2002 (for the 2001 season) to 2006 (for the 2005 season), and then took 2 years off due to lack of sponsorship.

Oshiomogho Atogwe

Atogwe played college football and ran track for the Stanford Cardinal in the Pac-10 conference where during his career he made nine interceptions.

Paul Schwegler

His college football experience helped to launch an acting career in Hollywood during the 1930s, first paying minor parts in football films and later in other genres, such as the drama film 365 Nights in Hollywood (1934).

Ramon Humber

He attended Champlin Park High School in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, then played college football at North Dakota State.

Romeo Bandison

He played his Senior year of high school football at Tamalpais (Mill Valley, CA), college football at the University of Oregon and also played a season in his homeland for the Amsterdam Admirals of the (then) WLAF.

San Francisco State Gators football

The San Francisco State Gators football team represented San Francisco State University (Formerly San Francisco State Teacher's College) from the 1931 through 1995 seasons.

Stevie Baggs

He played American college football at Bethune-Cookman.

The First Game

The First Game is a painting by Arnold Friberg, and was commissioned in 1968 by Chevrolet Motor Division as one of four paintings to commemorate the then-upcoming centennial celebration of college football in the United States.

Tommy Laurendine

Tommy Laurendine (born c. 1968) is the head coach of the Sewanee: The University of the South (Sewanee) college football team in Sewanee, Tennessee, and previously served as an offensive coordinator at Washington & Lee, West Alabama, Southern Arkansas, Lenoir–Rhyne and The Citadel.