IT Powerpoint One

College

Football

Birth of College Football

The first college football game was played between Rutgers College (Now Rutgers

University) and College of New Jersey (Now Princeton University)

Michigan has the most wins all time with 877

Heisman Trophy

Given to the most prestigious player in the nation!

Known originally as the DAC Trophy when it was first presented to Jay Berwagner, the legendary “one man gang” of the University of Chicago on December 9, 1935. However, reference to the award as the DAC Trophy was only used once. Following the death of John Heisman in October 1936, who at the time was the Director of Athletics at the Downtown Athletic Club, the award was renamed the Heisman Memorial Trophy. Now, yearly, is given to the top College Football Player in America!

Heisman winners and professional sportsEight of the seventy four Heisman Trophy winners are in the

Pro Football Hall of Fame!

Four have been named MVP of a Super Bowl!

-There have been 140 National Championship Trophies Awarded!

-Princeton was the first title winner!

-Princeton has won the most titles of all time with 28

-Yale is second with 26, followed by Michigan with 22!

1936…The Poll Championship Era Begins!!!

Most Championships Since polls took place as a deciding factor in choosing a National

Champion!

ALABAMA … 8 NOTRE DAME … 8

Most National Championships by conferences since 1936

Big 12 - 18

SEC - 18

Big 10 - 15

Independents - 10

ACC - 10

PAC 10 - 9

Bowl Championship SeriesInstated at the beginning of the 1998 season, became the new way for determining who should play for a National

Championship.

About the BCS

Oklahoma has 16 times been ranked No. 1 in the BCS standings, followed by USC and Ohio State at 15. Florida State and Miami have been first seven times. Interestingly, Oklahoma has lost its last four BCS bowl games and has won only one BCS title, in 2000.

The team that has gotten the most bang for BCS buck is Louisiana State, which has won two national titles despite having spent only two weeks at the No.1 position during the regular season. In 2003, LSU finished second behind Oklahoma and beat the Sooners and last year LSU finished second behind Ohio State and beat the Buckeyes.

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That would be our one-hit wonder UCLA Bruins, who were the first No. 1 team in BCS history. UCLA fell behind Ohio State the next week and has never returned to the top.

The only schools that started No. 1 and ended up winning the national title were Florida State in 1999 and USC in 2004.

College football’s largest margin of victory came in 1916, when Georgia Tech defeated Cumberland by a score of 222

to 0. The game was cut short by 15 minutes.

The West Virginia Mountaineers are the winningest Division I-A team (663-442-45) to have never won a national title.

Following a number of deaths, President Theodore Roosevelt threatened to ban college football in 1906.

In 1905, 18 men were killed in college football games, and 159 were permanently injured.