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Bowl Championship Series view detail comment email this

"The Bowl Championship Series [BCS] was established before the 1998 season to determine the national champion for college football while maintaining and enhancing the bowl system that's nearly 100 years old." The site provides a history of the BCS, Bowl Coalition and BCS game information back to 1992, current standings and a standings archive back to 1998, current BCS bowl pairings, and links to media coverage.
http://www.bcsfootball.org
Topics: College and University Education, Sports, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment

Last updated Nov 10, 2006


College Football Rivalries view detail comment email this

A list of traditional college football rivalry games in the United States, with "each rivalry ... listed under the team alphabetically first." Includes series record and description of trophy for each rivalry, and games which are often played on the weekend before Thanksgiving. Also includes a list of longest rivalries (more than 100 games played) and a note about what makes a rivalry. From an enthusiast.
http://www.1122productions.com/rivalries/
Topics: Sports

Last updated Nov 16, 2005


CollegeSports.com view detail comment email this

Gateway to news and features on major, and some minor, college sports, with links to the official collegiate conference and team pages.
http://www.cstv.com/
Topics: College and University Education, Sports, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment

Last updated Nov 27, 2005


Football: Official College Bowl Websites view detail comment email this

This site provides "a collection of links to the official websites of all the college bowl games," which are played in December and January. Includes sites for the Rose Bowl, Orange Bowl, Sugar Bowl, Fiesta Bowl, Sun Bowl, and more. An About.com site.
http://football.about.com/od/officialbowlsites/
Topics: College and University Education, Sports

Last updated Jan 15, 2007


Mountain Plains Sports Federation (MPSF) view detail comment email this

The MPSF "the competitive needs of member institutions from the Big West, Pacific-10, Mountain West, Western Athletic and West Coast Conferences and other selected universities in the western United States, to provide championship competition for Division I intercollegiate Olympic sports in a conference setting." The site has news about the sports the federation sponsors.
http://mpsports.cstv.com/
Topics: College and University Education, Sports, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment

Last updated May 26, 2008


NCAAsports.com view detail comment email this

The official site for the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Reports on individual men's and women's sports and championships, past and present. Features photos, a listing of NCAA schools (including team mascots and nicknames), and broadcasting and Internet information.
http://www.ncaa.com/
Topics: College and University Education, Photograph Collections, Sports, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment

Last updated Jun 7, 2008


Official Site of the Conference of Champions: Pac-10 view detail comment email this

News; championship sites and dates; schedules of radio, television, and Web broadcasts; and more about the Pacific-10 (Pac-10) college athletic conference. The conference has its roots in the old Pacific Coast Conference and sponsors men's and women's sports. Member schools include the universities of Arizona, California, California-Los Angeles, Oregon, and Washington; Arizona State, Oregon State, and Washington State universities; Stanford University; and the University of Southern California.
http://www.pac-10.org/
Topics: College and University Education, Sports, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment

Last updated Jun 17, 2002


Why Are Rivalries So Intense? view detail comment email this

A description of the different reasons underlying college football rivalries. Includes a discussion of in-state rivalries (between public schools and between public and private schools), border wars ("schools in states adjacent to one another"), and trophy games (such as for the "Old Oaken Bucket, Paul Bunyan's ax or Bo Schembechler's hat"). Also includes a comment about the effect of Hurricane Katrina on the Bayou Classic, the annual game between Southern and Grambling State. From ESPN.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=jones/050902
Topics: Sports

Last updated Nov 16, 2005




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