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College football is American football played by teams of students fielded by American universities and colleges, including United States military academies. It was the venue through which American football first gained popularity in the United States. College football remains extremely popular today among students, alumni, and other fans of the sport, particularly in the Southern and Midwestern parts of the country.
The first game played between teams representing American colleges was played under rules more similar to the 1863 rules of the English Football Association, the basis of the modern form of soccer. The game, between Rutgers University and Princeton University, took place on November 6, 1869 at College Field (now the site of the College Avenue Gymnasium), New Brunswick, New Jersey. Rutgers won, by a score of 6 "runs" to 4.
The 2006-07 Bowl season caps the 2006 NCAA Division I-A football season in college football. The NCAA Division I-A does not include a play-off system. Instead, the season concludes with a series of bowl games that have developed as a reward for teams that do well in the regular season.
The 2006-07 schedule is the largest post-season lineup ever, with the addition of the new stand-alone Bowl Championship Series National Championship Game as well as the International Bowl in Toronto, Ontario which is the first game to be played outside the USA since the last Bacardi Bowl was played in Havana, Cuba in 1937. The season also adds two additional games---the PapaJohns.com Bowl and the New Mexico Bowl---as part of a record 38 post-season games (32, not including the post-BCS all-star games) scheduled between the Poinsettia Bowl on December 19, 2006, and the post-season-ending Texas vs. The Nation Game on February 2, 2007. Thus, 64 teams out of the 119 in Division I-A will be playing in the post-season, thanks in part to the NCAA's decision to expand D-I schedules to 12 games and allow teams with a 6-6 record to be bowl-elligible if the team or their conference has negotiated a bowl contract.
A forward pass — usually called simply a pass — is a throwing of the football from a member of the team in possession of the ball to another member of the same team who is closer to the opponent's goal line. This is permitted only once during an offensive play and only from behind the line of scrimmage. If an eligible receiver on the passing team legally catches the ball it is a complete pass and the receiver may attempt to advance the ball. If an opposing player legally catches the ball (all defensive players are eligible receivers) it is an interception. That player's team immediately gains possession of the ball and he may attempt to advance the ball toward his goal. If no player is able to legally catch the ball it is an incomplete pass and the ball becomes dead the moment it touches the ground. It will then be returned to the original line of scrimmage for the next down. If any player interferes with an eligible receiver's ability to catch the ball it is pass interference and will incur a penalty... (Read more)
Wayne Woodrow "Woody" Hayes (February 14, 1913 – March 12, 1987) was an American football coach who is best remembered for his 28-year tenure at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio from 1951-1978.
As head coach with the Buckeyes, Hayes would lead his teams to a 205-61-10 record, winning five national championships ('54, '57, '61, '68, and '70), 13 Big Ten Conference titles and four of the team's eight Rose Bowl appearances. He's also the only coach to ever send a team to four consecutive Rose Bowl games. {more}
- ... that the 2006 Boise State Broncos returned more starters from 2005 than any other team in NCAA Division I-A football?
- ... that former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Byron "Whizzer" White was a star running back for the Colorado Buffaloes and was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1954.
- ...that Ohio State linebacker James Laurinaitis, the son of professional wrestler Road Warrior Animal, is the first Buckeyes scholarship football player from Minnesota since 1933?
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- ...that the World's Largest Texas Flag (pictured), measuring 75 feet by 125 feet, is unfurled on the field by members of Alpha Phi Omega before Texas Longhorn football games?
- ...that John Elway had led Stanford on what would have been the game winning drive culminating in a field goal... before the Cal football team ran over the Stanford Band on the last play of the game, in the game known as The Play. This was Elway's last game before becoming a pro, where he led the Denver Broncos to many comebacks.
- ...that the Sunflower Showdown, the series of athletic contests between Kansas State University and the University of Kansas, dates back to a dispute over the location of the state university in the 1860s?
- ...that the 1989 Glasnost Bowl was an attempt to schedule an American college football game in Soviet Russia at Moscow's Dynamo Stadium?
- ...that Auburn's first bowl game was the 1937 Bacardi Bowl, played in Havana, Cuba? The game against Villanova ended in a 7-7 tie.
- ...that last season, Rutgers went to their second bowl ever? In the Insight Bowl, the Scarlet Knights lost to Arizona State, 45-40.
- ...that the Rose Bowl was played in Durham, North Carolina in 1942 due to security concerns following the attack on Pearl Harbor? Oregon State beat Duke, 20-16.
- ...that Michigan has more wins than any other Division I-A team at 848?
- ...that Kentucky has only won a single SEC championship in football? It came in 1950, under legendary coach Bear Bryant.
- ...that Chicago was a member of the Big Ten conference from 1896-1939 under head coach Amos Alonzo Stagg?
- ...that Miami has won the most national championships of any Division I collegiate football team in the last quarter century, with five (1983, 1987, 1989, 1991 and 2001)?
- ...that the 2004 Texas Longhorn football team made college football history by being the first team to ever win the Rose Bowl Game as time ran off the clock?
- ...that prior to the 1916 college football season, Zora G. Clevenger and John R. Bender in effect traded jobs as head football coach at Kansas State University and the University of Tennessee?
- ...that the Florida Gators have not beaten the Miami Hurricanes since 1985?
- ...that the Colorado Buffaloes football team will play their 1100th game this year against the Nebraska Cornhuskers on November 24, 2006?
- ...that during Jake Gaither's twenty-five year tenure as head football coach at Florida A&M University, his win-loss-tie record was 203-36-4, and his teams won twenty-two Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championships and six Black College National Championships?
- ..that there are three Red River Shootout trophies given to the winner of the annual Red River Shootout, which is one of college football's oldest rivalry games, played between the Texas Longhorns and the Oklahoma Sooners?
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- December 9, 2006 - Ohio State quarterback Troy Smith wins the 2006 Heisman Trophy. Darren McFadden of Arkansas is the runner-up.
- December 2, 2006 - The 2006-07 Bowl Picture starts to firm-up as the regular season draws to a close.
- November 17, 2006 - Bo Schembechler the former coach of the Michigan Wolverines football program, died at the age of 77. His death came the day before one of the biggest games in the history of the Ohio State-Michigan rivalry as the two teams were each undefeated and respectively ranked #1 and #2 in the country.
- October 15, 2006 - After a game between the Miami Hurricanes and Florida International University is interrupted by a bench-clearing brawl, Miami Coach Larry Coker announces the suspension of eight players.
- September 16, 2006 - Controversial officiating leads coach Bob Stoops of the 2006 Oklahoma Sooners football team to ask that the result of his team's game versus the Oregon Ducks be over-turned. As a result of mistakes made, the Pacific-10 Conference has suspended the entire officiating crew who worked the game.
- September 6, 2006 - The 2006 NCAA Division I-A football season is underway as Notre Dame defeats Georgia Tech 14-10, #9 Cal is blown out by Tennessee, and Bobby Bowden's Florida State University Seminoles upset Miami. In the rankings released Tuesday, Ohio State, Texas, and USC occupy the top three spots in both polls.
- September 2, 2006 - "Godzillatron" debuts as the largest high-definition video screen in the world of college football.
- August 24, 2006 - Kansas Jayhawks defensive tackle Eric Butler alleges in a federal civil rights lawsuit that the NCAA violates Title IX by granting pregnancy leave to female student athletes, while he was denied an extra year of eligibility following the birth of his daughter.
- We need a playoff. — Bernie Machen, president of the University of Florida who supports creating a play-off for NCAA Division I-A
- I like to believe that my best hits border on felonious assault. — former Ohio State Buckeyes defensive back Jack Tatum, on the fierce quality of his play
- If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you. — University of Alabama Crimson Tide head coach Paul "Bear" Bryant, on his motivational techniques
- When people used to see Wake Forest on the schedule, they used a pen to mark down a `W.' We're at the point now where we at least make them use a pencil. — Wake Forest head coach Jim Grobe
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- Update List of college bowl games to be accurate. For example, Aloha Bowl is listed as defunct, but it is playing this year. See NCAA football bowl games, 2006-07 for list of bowl games this year.
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