College Football

College Football

Exsecutive summary about By Dorrie Ruplinger

College football is getting to be as popular as professional football. In some areas of the country, college football is a lot more popular than NFL football. The AP poll and the USA Today polls are the most common polls used by the general public. College football has been around a long time. The first intercollegiate college football game was played on November 6, 1869. The score of the game was 6-4. The game played that day was much different than college football as we know it today. During that first game each team had 25 players. The rules of the game were more similar to rugby than to modern day football. The rules for that day's game were adopted from the rules of the London Football Association. The game of football evolved over time. In 1876 the large playing field was changed also. Early football was a vicious game. Changes in the rules, how the game was scored, and in the ball itself in the 1930's helped the game gain popularity.

College Football

Today, over 135 years after the first intercollegiate college football game was played, there are over 600 collegiate football teams in the United States.

College Football is the Most Passionate Sport - 17 Reasons Why

Exsecutive summary about By Mike P Weaver

College football creates and instills more passion out of players, coaches, and most definitely fans than any other American sport. EVERY game matters. I've seen plenty of playoff bound NFL teams sleepwalk through games. You simply will not see this type of play in the college ranks. You can't tell there are more rivalries in any other sport besides college football. Let's face it - Michigan and Ohio State might be the best rivalry that exists in all of sports. Walk a college campus the week before a huge game. Let's face it. Tradition is littered across the college football landscape. It loiters on the street corners, in pre-game festivities, in half-time marching band performances, in post-game rituals, each big rivalry game brings countless traditions.

Loyalty to a certain team may run for generations in a family. Money money money! No 23 year old millionaires with bling bling on these teams. The college atmosphere. Let's do some quick phrase association - crisp fall Saturday:college football; tailgating on campus:college football; over 110,000 fans:Michigan Stadium; marching band traditions:college football. The stadiums. More games. There are 32 NFL teams. Live mascots. Unfortunately, Michigan doesn't boast a live wolverine on gameday. Walk-ons. Game Trophies. The Little Brown Jug - Michigan vs. Minnesota; The Paul Bunyan Axe - Michigan vs. Michigan State; are two to name a few. Teams all over college football each Saturday often play for a trophy that oozes tradition in that particular series. Now, living in Dayton, OH - on any given Saturday I could spend less than $40 and go to any of these campuses: Michigan, Michigan State, Cincinnati, Indiana, any one of ten MAC teams, Notre Dame, Purdue, Louisville, Kentucky, Penn State, etc. Everything about the infrastructure of college football sets up a season full of justifying your team's record, ranking, or bowl matchup. What it also does, it maintains the relevance of the college football season in December when teams are preparing for their bowl games.