Football - Facts About College Football

Many people may not believe it but it is a fact. College football is becoming more popular than NFL football. When one goes for a college football game, one can see a sea of fans in the team’s color routing for the team. This is becoming more and more the norm, if one can say so.

The BCS ranking system decides which two teams will end up playing for the National Championship each year. The data for the BCS ranking comes from various sources along with the USA Today poll and Harris poll. This data is used to rank teams on a weekly basis. Usually the first BCS poll is published around mid-October while colleges start playing each either by late August or early September.
However, the BCS poll has come under a lot of criticism and many fans and individuals are of the opinion that a playoff should decide which teams should play for the National Championship rather than a computer generated data.
Many college football fans would like a playoff and most of the universities are against the idea of a playoff as they feel that the football season would get extended to long and in turn affect the academics.
The first intercollegiate college football game was played on November 6, 1869. The game was between Princeton and Rutgers University and Rutgers won the game 6-4. The game played that day was different from the college football we know today. The rules were completely different and each team had 25 players. However, in the 1880s, the game started resembling the football we know today.
Today, after 138 years, there are over 600 collegiate football teams in the United States. And, yearly attendance at the games played by these college football teams runs into tens of millions.