The Tigers were undefeated, and had a chance to become the No. 1 college football team in the country.
The preseason rankings had the Tide pegged as the second-best college football team in the land, and the Wolverines as the eighth-best.
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He was a senior on the college football team when he developed a prototype for a polyester-Lycra-blend T-shirt to keep him and his teammates dry.
In the beginning every college football team, its alums and its fans had no greater aspirations than to end their season in the glory of participating in and winning a legendary post season Bowl game.
You do admit that Notre Dame has the highest graduation rate in college football and is currently the top-ranked team in college football.
That low spending coupled with on-field dominance has makes Kansas State the most cost-efficient team in college football.
Of course Notre Dame, the second-most valuable team in college football, can afford to pay two head coaches at once.
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The closest thing Mr. Holder has to coaching experience in sports, he said in an interview, was leading his intramural flag-football team in college.
There are several states across the nation with low baseball to football ratios that are predominantly rural, not near a professional baseball team, and located near significant college football universities.
The newspaper said the Tamil Nadu government had not allowed a football team from a Colombo college to train in the state capital, Chennai, last September.
The BCS, long opposed to changing its illustrious bowl system, will officially support implementing a four-team playoff system for the 2014 college football season.
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So when a blossoming blowout between the University of Alabama and some other team in Monday night's college football championship floated into yawnfest territory, the electronic eyes of ESPN naturally went wandering -- settling on a brunette bombshell who just happens to be the girlfriend of Crimson Tide quarterback AJ McCarron.
The following season, the College Football Playoff will launch the first-ever four-team playoff for the sport's top division, which is made up of 10 conferences and four independent teams, the most prominent of them Notre Dame.
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Last June, college-football leaders voted to replace the BCS with a four-team playoff that launches after the 2014 season.
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This team played one of the toughest schedules in all of college football last year.
Our college football valuations use a weighted scoring system to measure the value created by each team for four key areas.
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The 11 conference commissioners in the Bowl Championship Series and Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick last month agreed to explore the possibility of a four-team playoff, which would be a first for major-college football.
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After one of the busiest off seasons in history with the introduction of a four-team playoff system to crown a national champion starting in 2014, college football officially kicks off today.
The four-team playoff that will supplant the convoluted system of selecting two teams for college football's championship game was hailed as a breakthrough.
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Meanwhile, the college football world (and those fascinated with same) will wait with anticipation to see what team hat individual players will throw on in what has become a rather dramatic process.
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He went to college at Southern Utah University, where he was a running back on the school's football team and graduated with a degree in political science in 2001, the school's athletic department spokesman Neil Gardner said.
He went to college at Southern Utah University, where he was a running back on the school's football team and graduated with a degree in political science in 2001, Southern Utah athletic department spokesman Neil Gardner said.
As every college football fan knows, the Big Ten Conference traditionally sends a representative to play a Pac-12 Conference team in the Rose Bowl.
By 2017, each Big Ten team will play someone from the Pac-12 annually, which should help cure one of college football's greatest ills the galling, gutless nonconference schedules that many major programs play during September.
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