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... the Abilene Christian University Wildcats set a record for points in an NCAA playoff game (93) against West Texas A&M University in the 2008 NCAA Division II National Football Championship playoffs? in the 2008 NCAA Division II National Football Championship playoffs ...in its first ever home playoff game the Ashland University Eagles defeated the Minnesota State-Mankato Mavericks, 27-16, in the 2008 NCAA Division II National Football Championship playoffs? ...that the 2008 Texas Longhorns of The University of Texas at Austin played the Miners of University of Texas El Paso for the first time in school history? ...that the Longest play in college football history occurred when the Trinity Tigers, trailing the Millsaps Majors by two points, used 15 backward passes for a 60-yard touchdown to win the game as time expired? ...that the greatest point spread ever overcome is 41 points, by Stanford when they beat #2 ranked USC, 24-23 in 2007? ...that the first meeting between the Minnesota Golden Gophers football team and the Wisconsin Badgers took place in 1890 and marked the beginning of the most played rivalry at the top level of NCAA competition? ...that the University of North Texas and United States Naval Academy combined for 136 points, the most points in a regulation football game ever? ...that J. D. Brookhart, head coach of the Akron Zips football team, started his coaching career as an unpaid assistant for the Denver Broncos in 1995 and 9 years later was the MAC coach of the year? ... that James Cox started three games for the Colorado Buffaloes football team, but only completed 1 game, in 4 years? that Larry Blakeney, the current head coach of the Troy Trojans football team, is one of only two men to take a college football team from Division II to Division I-AA and then Division I-A? (The other is UCF's Gene McDowell.) ...that the 1985 Oklahoma Sooners won the National Championship by defeating Penn State Nittany Lions in the Orange Bowl? ...Winchester Osgood became the first collegiate athlete to win National AAU Wrestling title? <li>...that the 2007 Texas Longhorn football team will be the first opponent for University of Central Florida in the Knights' new home field, Bright House Networks Stadium?</li> <li>...In 1895, Williams recommended John Heisman for the head coach position at Auburn. At the time Heisman was a tomato farmer in Texas? <li>... that Hall of Fame football player Ed Molinski was also a Golden Gloves state champion boxer and served in the Marines during World War II, earning the rank of second lieutenant?</li> <li>...that in each of the three years that college football's Cingular All-America Player|Cingular All-America Player of the Year has existed the populace's selection has differed from the sportswriter selected Heisman Trophy? <li>... that Smokey, was selected as mascot by the University of Tennessee students after a blue tick coon hound howled during a halftime contest?</li> <li>...that the University of Central Florida in the Golden Knights will inaugurate their new stadium, Bright House Networks Stadium during the 2007 NCAA Division I-BS football season? <li>... that the 2006 Boise State Broncos returned more starters from 2005 than any other team in NCAA Division I-A football?</li> <li>... that former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Byron "Whizzer" White was a star running back for the Colorado Buffaloes and was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1954. <li>...that Ohio State linebacker James Laurinaitis, the son of professional wrestler Road Warrior Animal, is the first Buckeyes scholarship football player from Minnesota since 1933?</li> <li>...that the World's Largest Texas Flag (pictured), measuring 75 feet by 125 feet, is unfurled on the field by members of Alpha Phi Omega before Texas Longhorn football games? </li>
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<li>...that John Elway had led Stanford on what would have been the game winning drive culminating in a field goal... before the Cal football team ran over the Stanford Band on the last play of the game, in the game known as The Play. This was Elway's last game before becoming a pro, where he led the Denver Broncos to many comebacks. <li>...that the Sunflower Showdown, the series of athletic contests between Kansas State University and the University of Kansas, dates back to a dispute over the location of the state university in the 1860s? </li> <li>...that the 1989 Glasnost Bowl was an attempt to schedule an American college football game in Soviet Russia at Moscow's Dynamo Stadium?</li> <li>...that Auburn's first bowl game was the 1937 Bacardi Bowl, played in Havana, Cuba? The game against Villanova ended in a 7-7 tie. </li> <li>...that the Rose Bowl was played in Durham, North Carolina in 1942 due to security concerns following the attack on Pearl Harbor? Oregon State beat Duke, 20-16.</li> <li>...that during Jake Gaither's twenty-five year tenure as head football coach at Florida A&M University, his win-loss-tie record was 203-36-4, and his teams won twenty-two Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championships and six Black College National Championships?</li> <li>..that there are three Red River Shootout trophies given to the winner of the annual Red River Shootout, which is one of college football's oldest rivalry games, played between the Texas Longhorns and the Oklahoma Sooners?</li>


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<li>...that Michigan has more wins than any other Division I-A team at 848? </li> <li>...that Kentucky has only won a single SEC championship in football? It came in 1950, under legendary coach Bear Bryant. </li> <li>...that Miami has won the most national championships of any Division I collegiate football team in the last quarter century, with five (1983, 1987, 1989, 1991 and 2001)?</li> <li>...that the Florida Gators have not beaten the Miami Hurricanes since 1985?</li> <li>...that last season, Rutgers went to their second bowl ever? In the Insight Bowl, the Scarlet Knights lost to Arizona State, 45-40.</li> <li>...that Chicago was a member of the Big Ten conference from 1896-1939 under head coach Amos Alonzo Stagg? </li> <li>...that prior to the 1916 college football season, Zora G. Clevenger and John R. Bender in effect traded jobs as head football coach at Kansas State University and the University of Tennessee?</li> <li>...that the 2004 Texas Longhorn football team made college football history by being the first team to ever win the Rose Bowl Game as time ran off the clock?</li> <li>...that the Colorado Buffaloes football team will play their 1100th game this year against the Nebraska Cornhuskers on November 24, 2006?</li> <li>...that Johnny Bright was named Drake University's greatest football player of all time (1969), led the nation in total offense in 1950, and was a Heisman trophy candidate in 1951 before being injured during a Drake vs. Oklahoma A&M game in an incident that came to be known as the Johnny Bright Incident? </li> -replaced 5 November 2006 <li>...that one of RUF/NEKS' (an all-male pep squad at the University of Oklahoma) shotguns they use during football games is displayed in the Smithsonian Institution?</li> - replaced 20 October 2005 <li>...that the Slab of Bacon was a traveling black walnut wood awarded annually beginning in 1930 to the victor of a game between Big Ten Conference border rivals University of Minnesota and University of Wisconsin-Madison, but, having been lost in 1945, was replaced by three years thence by Paul Bunyan's Axe?</li>  - replaced 20 October 2005 <li>...that the Texas Longhorn Band (pictured) performed for inaugurations of Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush?</li> - replaced 20 October 2005 <li>...that Joel Klatt played minor league baseball for 2 years before walking on to the Colorado Buffaloes football? - replaced 29 Sept 2005.