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2008 Chick-fil-A College Kickoff

Clemson's redshirt senior quarterback, Cullen Harper, completed 20 of 34 passes but had no touchdowns and one interception.

Chad Henne

In 2004, Henne entered the 2004 college football season as a freshman for the Wolverines, and third on the depth chart behind redshirt sophomore Matt Gutierrez and redshirt freshman quarterback Clayton Richard.

Curtis Painter

After redshirting in 2004, Painter backed up starting quarterback Brandon Kirsch for the first six games of the 2005 season, ultimately replacing Kirsch as the starter for the last five games of the season.

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.

Hans Tanzler

After arriving late for the fall term, Florida football coach Raymond Wolf decided to redshirt Tanzler, and recommended that he play basketball to stay in shape.

Jordan Gross

After redshirting his freshman year, he started three games, and played in the Las Vegas Bowl, where the Mountain West Conference (MWC) champion Utes beat Fresno State 17-16.

Josh Gaines

After redshirting his freshman year in 2004, he made appearances in every game in 2005, backing up future Kansas City Chief Tamba Hali.

Matt Tegenkamp

After redshirting his freshman season, he defeated two-time high school national champion Dathan Ritzenhein at the U.S. Junior Cross Country championships, handing Ritzenhein his first cross country defeat in several years.

Rick McIvor

McIvor redshirted in 1982, because Todd Dodge, regarded as a high school phenom, arrived on campus.

Scott Dreisbach

In Lloyd Carr's debut as Michigan head coach, the Wolverines trailed 17–0 at home in the fourth quarter before the redshirt freshman Dreisbach engineered three scoring drives, the last culminating with a touchdown pass to Mercury Hayes as time expired for a 18–17 Michigan victory.


see also

Allen Hunt

As Hunt has shared on the air, he enjoys hiking, reading, NASCAR, bluegrass music, and college sports.

Anton Gunn

Zimbalist, A. "Unpaid Professionals: Commercialism and Conflict in Big-Time College Sports", Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999.

Dave Trembley

He was inducted into the Lancaster JetHawks Baseball Hall of Fame in 2008, Antelope Valley College Sports Hall of Fame in 2009, and the Florida State League Hall of Fame in 2012.

Kellison

John Kellison (1886–1971), American football player, athletic director, and college sports coach

Kristen Sze

She supports the San Francisco Giants baseball team and the California Golden Bears college sports teams and also enjoys bargain-hunting and running.

MCAC

Midlands Collegiate Athletic Conference, American college sports conference of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics

Mimi Ryan

University of Florida athletic director Ray Graves and associate athletic director Ruth Alexander had made the strategic decision to embrace Title IX, the new federal law requiring equal opportunities for women in U.S. college sports.

PSAC

Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference, a college sports conference in the United States

Sportz Blitz

The show focuses on Alabama high school and college sports, specifically Auburn University and the University of Alabama.

Theodore W. Drake

was an American cartoonist, graphic artist, and sports artist known for creating the college-sports mascot the Notre Dame Leprechaun.

Three Smart Saps

The mobster party in prison is decorated with college-sports-style banners for Alcatraz, Joliet, Leavenworth and Sing Sing, all well-known prisons of the day.

WOZN-FM

The full WTDY schedule was simulcast on WTDY-FM, including local shows Sly in the Morning and Forward with Kurt Baron; full-hour local newscasts at 12PM and 5PM; national shows including Michael Smerconish and America's Radio News; and weekend broadcasts of NFL and college sports from Compass Media Networks and Sports USA.