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Game in 1918 cancelled due to flu epidemic. Kentucky is known as Kentucky State College before 1913. Centre merges with Central in 1901.

History
College football has been played for over one hundred years, but the game and the organizational structure of college football have evolved significantly during that time. The first college football game was played in 1869, but the game continued to develop during the late 19th and early 20th century. During this period, Walter Camp pioneered the concept of a line of scrimmage, the system of downs, and the College Football All-America Team. The 1902 Rose Bowl was the first bowl game in college football history, and the event began to be held annually starting with the 1916 Rose Bowl. In the 1930s, other bowl games came into existence, including the Sugar Bowl, the Cotton Bowl Classic, and the Orange Bowl. The 1906 college football season was the first season played under the IAAUS (which would later change its name to the NCAA) and the first season in which the forward pass was legal. The IAAUS had formed after President Theodore Roosevelt, responding to several deaths that had occurred during football games, requested that colleges find ways to make football a safer sport.

In 1935, the Heisman Trophy was presented for the first time; the award is generally considered to be college football's most prestigious individual award. In 1965, the NCAA voted to allow the platoon system, in which different players played on offense and defense; teams had previously experimented with the concept in the 1940s. In 1968, the NCAA began allowing freshmen to compete in games; freshmen had previously been required to take a redshirt year. In 1975, after a growth of "grants-in-aid" (scholarships given for athletic rather than academic or need-based reasons), the NCAA voted to limit the number of athletic scholarships each school could offer. In 1968, the NCAA required all teams to identify as members of either the University Division (for larger schools) or the College Division (for smaller schools), and in 1973, the NCAA divided into three divisions. At the urging of several larger schools seeking increased autonomy and commonality, Division I-A was formed prior to the 1978 season; the remaining teams in Division I formed the Football Championship Subdivision or FCS (then known as Division I-AA). In 1981, members of the College Football Association attempted to create a fourth division consisting solely of the most competitive schools, but this effort was defeated. In the 1992 season, the SEC split into divisions and played the first FBS conference championship game. The Big 12 and Western Athletic Conference did the same for the 1996 season, and most conferences eventually adopted divisions and championship games.

The NCAA does not officially award an FBS football championship, but several teams have claimed national championships. Other organizations have also sought to rank the teams and crown a national champion. The Dickinson System and other methods were formed in the early 20th century to select the best team in the country, and the AP Poll and the Coaches Poll began rankings teams in the middle of the 20th century. In many seasons, selectors such as the AP and the Coaches Poll designated different teams as national champions. Often, more than one team would finish undefeated, as the top teams were not guaranteed to play each other during the regular season or in bowl games. In 1992, five major conferences established the Bowl Coalition in order to determine the FBS champion. In 1998, the two remaining major conferences joined with the other five conferences to form the Bowl Championship Series. The BCS used a rankings system to match up the top two teams in the BCS National Championship Game. However, even the BCS era saw split national championships, as in 2003 the AP Poll and the Coaches Poll selected different national champions. The College Football Playoff replaced the BCS starting with the 2014 season; it features four teams through the 2023 season, after which it will expand to 12 teams.

Currently as of March 2020, there is no unified system to provide FBS football players with financial compensation aside from collegiate scholarships.

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note: In 1917, 1918, 1943, and 1944, football teams from military training facilities competed alongside college programs

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Attendance
Announced attendance figures for each home game. In the weekly columns, dashes (—) indicate away games, while bold font indicates the highest attendance of the week.

Schedule
The 2021 regular-season schedule consisted of 7 home and 5 away games. The Chanticleers traveled to Sun Belt foes Arkansas State, Appalachian State, Georgia Southern, and South Alabama. Coastal hosted Sun Belt foes Louisiana–Monroe, Troy, Georgia State, and Texas State.

The Chants hosted three of their four non-conference opponents at Brooks Stadium: The Citadel, from the NCAA Division I FCS Southern Conference; Kansas of the Big 12 Conference; and UMass, an FBS Independent. They traveled to Buffalo of the Mid-American Conference.

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Coaches Poll
For the second year, the final UPI Coaches Poll was released after the bowl games, on January 2, 1976.

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 * Denotes the largest crowd in Bronco Stadium history to date. Previous high was 34,127 vs Oregon in 2009. The record was broken on October 22, 2011, vs Air Force with 34,196.

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August 23, 2023 - Milwaukee, WI
The first Republican primary debate will be aired by Fox News and held on August 23, 2023, at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It will be moderated by Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum.

On April 25, Donald Trump raised uncertainty about his participation in the debates on Truth Social, saying he had not been consulted about them, did not want to be "libeled" and it was unnecessary given his large polling lead. He was open to participating in the debates in an interview conducted with Bret Baier on Fox News two months later. Potential candidate John Bolton has voiced uncertainty over the pledge requirement. Weeks later, Chris Christie denounced it, but indicated he had signed the pledge to make it onstage and would not make himself abide by it.

The rules have been noted as relatively strict. Asa Hutchinson has stated they will keep some campaigns from the debate while Larry Elder described the rules as "onerous." Perry Johnson called them "ridiculous" and began selling one dollar "I stand with Tucker" and "I identify as Non-Bidenary" t-shirts on Facebook, counting each sale as a campaign donation. Similarly Ramaswamy's campaign ran Facebook ads asking people for one dollar to "secure a prime spot" at the debate.

The Ron DeSantis campaign reportedly pushed for a higher threshold, likely to consolidate non-Trump votes towards his campaign.

On July 7, the DeSantis campaign said that DeSantis would attend the debate, regardless of Trump's participation.

Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy have contended that they have exceeded the donor threshold to qualify for the debate, gaining more than 60,000 donations, respectively. Trump, DeSantis and Tim Scott have also purportedly exceeded the 40,000 donor threshold. Christie announced he reached 40,000 donors on July 12. Doug Burgum claimed he met the donor threshold on July 19 in part due to offering $20 gift cards for $1 donations.

On July 23, Politico reported that six candidates had unofficially qualified for the debate following the publication of two state polls from Fox News: Trump, DeSantis, Ramaswamy, Haley, Scott, and Christie. Two days later, Burgum unofficially qualified as well.

One of Pence’s advisors announced that the campaign had received "more than 7,400 donations" since Trump's third indictment, which took place on August 1. On August 7, Pence announced he had made it to 40,000 donors, qualifying for the debates. Suarez also announced that he had met the donor threshold, but had not passed the one percent threshold in four polls, as of August 7.

Trump stated in an interview on Newsmax on August 9 that he would not pledge to support the eventual Republican nominee, one of the requirements to qualify for the debate. On August 14, the SuperPAC supporting Suarez claimed that he unofficially qualified for the debate by attaining four national polls, with one percent in each one, though his campaign stated that there was "no announcement at this time".

Trump reportedly indicated on August 18 that he will skip the first debate, instead opting for an interview with Tucker Carlson.

Johnson unofficially qualified for the debate on August 18. Suarez claimed to have qualified the same day, based on the polling criteria, though RNC officials stated that he had not met the criteria. On August 19, a pro-Suarez PAC claimed he unofficially qualified for the debate, but neither the campaign nor any major media outlet confirmed the claims.

Hutchinson unofficially qualified on August 20 after exceeding the donor threshold, while Ryan Binkley met the donor threshold the same day.

On August 20, Trump confirmed via a post on his Truth Social account that he would not attend any of the debates.

As of August 20, there have been 20 qualifying polls published, 15 national and two each from Iowa and New Hampshire, and one from South Carolina.

Attendance
Announced attendance figures for each home game. In the weekly columns, dashes (—) indicate away games, while bold font indicates the highest attendance of each team.

Teams by metropolitan area
The following list contains all metropolitan areas in the United States and Canada containing at least one team in any of the six major leagues. The number of teams in the big four leagues (B4) and the big six leagues (B6), and the city's teams in the National Football League (NFL), Major League Baseball (MLB), the National Basketball Association (NBA), the National Hockey League (NHL), Major League Soccer (MLS) and the Canadian Football League (CFL). No metropolitan area has teams in all six leagues, as NFL teams are exclusively in the United States and CFL teams are exclusively in Canada.


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The Baltimore Stallions (known officially as the "Baltimore Football Club" and previously as the "Baltimore CFL Colts" in its inaugural season) were a Canadian Football League team based in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States, which played the 1994 and 1995 seasons. They were the most successful American team in the CFL's generally ill-fated southern expansion effort into the United States, and by at least one account, the winningest expansion team in North American professional sports history at the time. They had winning records in each season, and in both years advanced to the championship game. In 1995, they became the only American franchise to win the Grey Cup.

In the final weeks of the Stallions' second season, it became public knowledge that the Maryland Stadium Authority and City of Baltimore were in serious negotiations with Art Modell, the long-time owner of the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League, (NFL) to move his franchise to Baltimore for the 1996 season. The Stallions ownership group knew they had no reasonable prospect of successfully competing with the overwhelmingly more popular brand in their home country. Even before the agreement with Modell became official within a month of the Stallions' Grey Cup triumph, the CFL team's ownership group was actively seeking to re-locate their team elsewhere. They ultimately chose to move their football organization to Montreal, reviving the dormant franchise based there as the third and current iteration of the Montreal Alouettes. The Stallions franchise was dissolved, thus becoming one of three Grey Cup champions in the modern era to subsequently fold (the others being the Ottawa Rough Riders and the original Alouettes). The CFL considers the Stallions to be a separate franchise from the Alouettes.

Formally exploring a candidacy
, individuals in this section have formally explored a candidacy for president, either by "testing the waters" or forming a political action committee.

Officially recognized political parties by state
As of December 2021

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