THE GAME
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The parts of the sport that decide who plays, who pays and who gets in. Rules first, money second, brackets last — in that order, because that is the order they constrain each other.
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The Heisman Trophy is decided not by a direct count of first-place selections, but by a weighted positional tally known mathematically as a Borda count. Under the voting system maintained by the…
Every starting quarterback in the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision opens the autumn on the Davey O'Brien Award semifinal ballot, whereas the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award immediately excludes any…
NCAA Division I athletics runs on a strict calendar: student-athletes have five calendar years to complete four seasons of competition. That baseline rule governs every roster designation in college…
A Division I football player seeking a transfer cannot pick up the phone and negotiate with another coaching staff. Under NCAA transfer regulations, the entire procedure begins inside an athletic…
College football players can sell the commercial rights to their personal identities, but universities cannot pay them a direct wage for scoring touchdowns. The NCAA adopted its Interim NIL Policy…
College football conference realignment is governed by media inventory pools and long-term legal covenants rather than institutional prestige. When an athletic department weighs a conference change,…
An institution qualifies for postseason football only after securing a record where wins against Football Bowl Subdivision opponents match or exceed total defeats. This baseline establishes the…
In August 2025, the College Football Playoff management committee announced that seeding for its expanded 12-team postseason tournament would derive directly from the selection committee's final…
On April 21, 2023, the NCAA approved timing rule changes for Divisions I and II that altered how game time elapses across college football. The governing body removed the routine stoppage of the game…
Every high school prospect pursuing college football encounters a number capped at 1.0000. That figure, published by 247Sports in its Composite index, represents the rare consensus No. 1 recruit in…
Line as published in the clipping this site was built on. It is the row a passing season is usually reduced to — attempts, yards, touchdowns, interceptions — plus what the same player did with his legs.
One mark per game. A streak is a bookkeeping object before it is a record: it survives only while every entry in the row is a game that counted, played in order, with at least one touchdown pass charged to the same passer.