In theory, the big difference between professional and college football is the status of their players, those in the NFL being professionals and those in the NCAA being amateurs. The NCAA states:"Amateur competition is a bedrock principle of college athletics. Maintaining amateurism is crucial to ...
“Coach (Marcus) Freeman said it the other day. He said that, ‘There’s only four teams with the opportunity to practice in college football right now, and we’re one of those four. So everything that you do, just remember the opportunity that you have right in front of you.’” ...
What The College Football Playoffs Need Is A Grass Roots MovementMark Cuban
All across the country people gather in their hundreds to enjoy college football. Whilst the NFL might offer the glitz and glamour of multimillion dollar stadiums and sporting mega-stars, there is something about college football and its grass roots that
Las Vegas Bowl. Overtime was fully adopted for the 1996 FBS season with a set of rules that remained unchanged through the 2018 season. Since then, we've seen the overtime rules change twice (in 2019 and 2021), but the basic format remains the same.How does college football overtime ...
honor of former Mississippi State football and basketball star and Olympian Don Scott, Davis Wade Stadium at Scott Field (as it is officially named) is the second-oldest FBS stadium in the country. The team's first mascot, Bully I, was buried under the bench at the 50-yard-line in 1939...
Bowl season culminates with the College Football Playoff National Championship, which will crown the first champion of the new 12-team playoff on Monday, January 20. Next up in deciding the two teams that will ultimately play in that championship game are the CFP ...
The college football postseason is here, and while that means the season is drawing to a close, it also means another month of football thanks to bowl games happening nearly every day for the next few weeks. Bowl season culminates with the College Football Playoff Na...
FBS is the top level of college football in the NCAA, featuring larger schools and bowl games, while FCS schools compete in a playoff for the championship, typically with smaller athletic budgets and scholarships. Difference Between FBS and FCS ...
Kicking off at 8 p.m. ET Friday, the first round of the new and expanded College Football Playoff is bringing winner-moves-on, loser-goes-home football to campuses for the first time. It all gets started from historic Notre Dame Stadium when the seventh-seeded Fighting Irish take on the...