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Brush the dust off your cleats and get ready. We're about to get down and dirty with some college football trivia. Do you think you can hang?Although Alabama started the victory cigar tradition, Tennessee partakes when they defeat the Crimson Tide. They do this in spite of the fact that tobacco use and free cigars violate NCAA rules, so they report themselves to get in minimal, if any trouble.
Jones was an offensive guard at Harvard, and was on the school's undefeated 1968 team. Cosby played fullback for the Temple University Owls, and also ran track and field. Incidentally, Diesel's real name is Mark Sinclair. You're welcome.
This bizarre occurrence, which has only happened five times since 1988, rewards the offense with one point if the defense gains possession of the ball on a point-after try (kicking a field goal), but is then tackled in the end zone by the offense.
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Following a touchdown, a team may opt to kick for the extra point or "go for two" via a passing play.
Played Nov. 6, 1869, Rutgers barely edged out Princeton with a score of 6-4. Notably, the game also lacked forward passing, which wasn't added until 1906.
Way back in 1916 the Yellow Jackets destroyed Cumberland University 222-0. That's 32 touchdowns! Rumor has it that the defeat was in retribution for an ill-fated baseball match-up between the two schools.
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Back in 1990 Houston quarterback Klingler passed for 716 yards in one game against Arizona State.
Leave it to an Alabama team to make something as simple as a mascot so confusing. The team's official mascot is Aubie the tiger, but "War Eagle!" is a commonly heard game day battle cry.
The match-up earned its name thanks to a 200-pound (90.7-kilogram) trophy made to look like the states of Arkansas and Louisiana ... which together, look like a boot.
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University of Florida quarterback John Reaves threw nine interceptions in the 1969 match-up against Auburn.
The school's wildly popular mascots are known as Uga the bulldog, each of whom are interred in a marble mausoleum within Sanford Stadium once he's gone to the Great Dawg House in the Sky.
As many as a quarter million Mexican free-tailed bats have called the eaves of Kyle Field home since it was built in 1927. The site's population has likely declined, however, thanks to renovations, which forced many of the winged friends to relocate.
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The typical season sports a 12-game schedule, but tournament championship games give strong programs an extra win, thus an advantage over other conferences that don't have a final regular season game.
Paterno's wins between 1998 and 2011 were temporarily vacated, thanks to the trauma of the Jerry Sandusky child molestation case, but were restored in 2015. First runner-up Bowden is said to support this decision.
The only losing season on Bear Bryant's impressive resume was his first, while coaching at Texas A&M. He went on to lead his teams to 13 conference titles and six national championships.
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More teams are fronted by bulldogs than any other mascot. And who can blame them? They're so loveable, if slobbery.
The Wolverines have more wins than any other program, but other schools have a higher win percentage, since they began playing football later.
Chosen in 1897 by student representatives, dark pink and black were eventually swapped out for blue and white because the pink faded too quickly to white. Yeah, that was the reason...
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All but one game since the 1966 season sold out, with the only exception being a Thanksgiving Day game, which was held on the holiday due to television requirements.
With seating for more than 107,000 fans, Michigan barely edges out Penn State's capacity of 106,572.
One of the most beloved songs associated with college football is "Rocky Top," yet it's not actually the official fight song for the Knoxville university. Nonetheless, the ditty has been played ad nauseum at UT games since 1972, and was written by country duo Felice and Boudleaux Bryant.
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SMU's football program was famously suspended for the entirety of 1987, as well as home games in 1988 after they were busted for major violations, occurring between 1974 and 1985.
2015 saw a significant change with the number of on-field officials increased from seven to eight. The newbie is known as the "center judge" and can be found in the offensive backfield, just opposite the referee. He's also easy to spot, thanks to the "C" on his uniform.
Prior to 1996, many games ended in ties. The first two overtime periods allow for teams to kick an extra point after scoring a touchdown, but all bets are off after that, and they must go for the more difficult two-point conversion.
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Most teams elect to go on defense first, since it's easier to strategize about how many points are necessary to win or keep the tied game going if you already know what the other team has put on the board.
Berwanger received the inaugural award in 1935, but Ohio State's Griffin took it home in both 1974 and 1975.
With 18 titles, Yale barely edges out Princeton's 17. It's worth noting, however, that neither has brought home the big prize since their football heyday in the 1920s.
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Between 1953 and 1957, the Oklahoma Sooners won an impressive (and unlikely to be surpassed anytime soon) 47 games in a row.
The three kickers who've achieved this incredibly long kick must have golden legs. At the very least, they definitely ate their Wheaties that morning.
A study of 54 public universities with major football programs revealed an average 220 point gap between football players and their university brethren. The gap was largest at the University of Florida, where players scored 346 points lower than their peers.
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