College football facts

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College football is American football played by teams of students from different American universities, colleges, and military academies. Play between colleges first made American football popular in the United States. College football is still popular today among students, alumni, and other fans of the sport. American Football is variation of Rugby introduced by Walter Camp. The very first match between two college teams using new "American" variation of Rugby was played between Princeton and Rutgers University in 1869. First season of college football had only two matches played. The game became popular quickly in coming years.

National championships

  • College football national championships in NCAA Division I FBS – The NCAA has never had an official championship for schools in the top-level Football Bowl Subdivision, or "FBS". Instead, several groups declare their own champions.
  • NCAA Division I Football Championship – The official championship for schools in the second-level Football Championship Subdivision, or "FCS".
  • NCAA Division I FCS Consensus Mid-Major football national championship
  • NCAA Division II national football championship
  • NCAA Division III national football championship
  • NAIA national football championship
  • NJCAA National football championship

Images

  • KU-vs-Mizzou-Nov-29-08 (2)

    A college football game from 2008 between the Kansas Jayhawks and the Missouri Tigers

  • College football TT USNA

    A college football game between Texas Tech and Navy

  • 1874HarvardMcGill

    Harvard vs. McGill

  • Walter Camp - Project Gutenberg eText 18048

    Walter Camp, the "Father of American Football", pictured here in 1878 as the captain of the Yale Football team

  • Fielding Yost-1902

    1902 football game between the University of Minnesota and the University of Michigan

  • Wisconsin1903FootballTeam

    University of Wisconsin football team, 1903

  • 1895 Auburn - Georgia football game at Piedmont Park in Atlanta Georgia

    1895 football game between Auburn and Georgia.

  • Vmi v hokies football game 1894

    An 1894 football game in Staunton, Virginia between VMI and Virginia Tech.

  • Sewanee 1899 Football Team

    Sewanee's 1899 "Iron Men."

  • Vanderbilt football 1904

    1904 Vanderbilt team in action.

  • 1888-USC-football-team

    The first USC football squad (1888). Before they were nicknamed the "Trojans", they were known as the USC Methodists.

  • 1893 Stanford American football team

    The 1893 Stanford American football team

  • Stanford Field

    The Big Game between Stanford and California was played as rugby union from 1906 to 1914.

  • Colorado football team 1890

    Colorado's First football team in 1890.

  • Utah vs. Colorado 1916

    Kickoff during the 1916 Colorado – Utah game

  • 1905 Utah football team

    The 1905 Utah football team

  • RobinsonThrowing

    1906 St. Louis Post-Dispatch photograph of Brad Robinson, who threw the first legal forward pass and was the sport's first triple threat

  • DaviesPittGT1918

    Tom Davies runs against undefeated and unscored upon Georgia Tech in the 1918 game at Forbes Field.

  • Hutson-Don-1940-grainfix

    Don Hutson in 1940.

  • UVA v. Penn State, Sep. 8 2012

    The Virginia Cavaliers (orange and blue home uniforms) play against the Penn State Nittany Lions (all-white away uniforms) in 2012 in Scott Stadium.

  • Harvard crimsons v brown 2009

    A night game between Harvard and Brown, September 25, 2009

  • 2015 NCAA FBS Football Programs

    Map of Division I (A) FBS

  • FCS map 2011

    Map of Division I (AA) FCS

  • NCAA D2 FB Map

    Map of NCAA Division II

  • NCAA Division 3 football map 2014

    Map of NCAA Division III

  • Map of National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics schools playing college football

    Map of NAIA

  • NJCAA fb

    Map of NJCAA

  • CCCAA fb

    Map of CCCAA


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