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COLLEGE FOOTBALL
College football is a whole different system than pro football. It has rankings of the top 25 teams. There are no playoffs. The championship game revolves around the first and second best teams in the BCS, Bowl Championship Series, at the end of the year, are the two teams that will play in the college national championship. Teams that win their conference go to bowl games at the end of the the year are BCS bowls. These bowls are for the top teams to play each other in the south for a BCS championship. The BCS bowls are the Sugar Bowl, the Fiesta Bowl, the Orange Bowl, the Rose Bowl, and the Capital One Bowl. In the NFL there are four divisions and thirty-two teams, but in college, there are around ten conferences and at least one hundred fifty teams. Plus division 2 and division 3 football, which are smaller schools. |
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In college football, the most popular conferences are in division one football. The SEC is teams from the southeast. Top teams there are Florida, Georgia, Auburn, and Tennessee. Another top conference is the Big 12. Top teams in this division are Texas, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas Tech, and Texas A&M. More good conferences are the ACC, Big East, and the Big Ten. Top teams here are Florida State, Pitt, West Virginia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Virginia Tech, and Miami. |
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THE HEISMAN TROPHY There are many awards in college football. Awards for running backs, quarter backs, wide receivers, lineman, linebackers, and basically all other positions. The most popular award is the Heisman Trophy award. This is awarded to the best player throughout the whole seasons. Qualities that the Heisman Trophy winner will need is ability to get touchdowns, yards rushing, passing, or receiving, and being a big contributor to their team. This award normally goes to an offensive player. The voters for the Heisman Trophy look at a players stats from all year around and make their decision on who to vote for, in the end, the player with the most votes, will be the Heisman Trophy winner. |
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TOP PLAYERS
When the words top players come to mind in the college world, many names come to mind. In college, there are over one hundred teams so obviously, there must be a lot of good players. Players that might be playing in the NFL someday are Adrian Peterson, Reggie Bush, Matt Leinart, Greg Lee, Darren Sproles, Brad Gradkowski, and Roscoe Parrish. These are the top players of the college football league. |
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BOWLS
Bowl games are played at the end of the year. Teams from all over the nation with winning records usually play in a southern area against another team in a special bowl game. The top Bowls are the BCS bowls. Conference winners compete in a BCS bowl. the conference winners with the most BCS poins, will play in a BCS bowl. The top two teams will play in the college nationall championship. |
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RANKINGS
The ranking system is two different polls. The coaches poll, and the media poll. The coaches poll is when the coaches vote on the top twenty five teams in the country. The media poll is when the media votes on the top twenty five teams in the country. Getting ranked normally takes a team to win a game against another ranked team, or having less than 4 losses a during the course of the season. That is how the rankings work. |
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