205 Facts About College Sports

1. Leonard Hamilton was on the staffs of the Kentucky teams that finished as the NCAA runner up in 1975, won the 1978 NCAA Championship and went to the 1984 Final Four.

2. The College Football Hall of Fame opened with good attendance figures early on, but visitation dwindled dramatically as time went on, and the facility closed in 1992.

3. Walter Payton was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1993 and the College Football Hall of Fame in 1996.

4. Jimmy Fallon has used "puppy prognosticators" to predict a variety of sporting events, including the Kentucky Derby, the NCAA Final Four and the college football championship.

5. Mark Richt is facing decisions many other coaches face as the college football calendar approaches Thanksgiving.

6. Amari Cooper played his college football at Alabama where he won a BCS national championship in 2012.

7. Adrian Peterson finished among the top three vote-getters for the Walter Payton Award in all four of his college football seasons.

8. In December 2015, Devin Bush rejected a scholarship offer from Florida State, where his father played, and committed instead to play college football for the Michigan Wolverines football team.

9. Lou Holtz typically appeared on pregame, halftime, and postgame shows of college football games.

10. Jimmy Fallon has used "puppy prognosticators" to predict a variety of sporting events, including the Kentucky Derby, the NCAA Final Four and the college football championship.

11. Derrick Henry is one of the best players in college football and a finalists for the Heisman Trophy award.

12. Dean Smith had the 9th highest winning percentage of any men's college basketball coach.

13. Derrick Henry attended and played college football for the University of Alabama from 2013 to 2015.

14. Keith Jackson announced he would retire from college football play-by-play after the 1998 season but ended up continuing with ABC Sports.

15. The NCAA provides many resources concerning the education of the college community on this topic and policies in order to foster diversity.

16. The NCAA has kept these core values central to its decisions regarding the allocation of championship bids.

17. Ole Miss has nine players and two coaches in the College Football Hall of Fame.

18. Peyton Manning chose to play college football for the University of Tennessee Volunteers under head coach Phillip Fulmer.

19. Nick Saban is tied with Bryant for most major college football national championships for a coach in the modern era.

20. The NCAA Championships's licensing was not required to produce the games, as rights to use teams are not licensed through the NCAA, but through entities such as individual schools and the Collegiate Licensing Company.

21. Oklahoma Sooners head coach Lincoln Riley became one of college football's top 10 highest-paid coaches when he signed a contract extension with the Sooners New Year's Day.

22. The NCAA is the dominant, but not the only, collegiate athletic organization in the United States.

23. The NCAA Championship provides many resources concerning the education of the college community on this topic and policies in order to foster diversity.

24. LSU Tigers has had nine players and five head coaches inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.

25. Lou Holtz has worked for CBS Sports as a college football analyst and in the same capacity for the cable network ESPN.

26. The NCAA provides many resources to provide information and enforce this amendment.

27. The Miami Hurricanes have the sixteenth highest win percentage in NCAA Division I history as of 2018, at.

28. Rick Pitino led Kentucky to the NCAA championship in 1996 and Louisville in 2013, although the latter was vacated by the NCAA.

29. Connor Cook played college football for the Michigan State Spartans and was their starting quarterback from 2013 to 2015.

30. Mark Emmert left Washington on October 1, 2010, having announced his departure for the NCAA Presidency on April 27, 2010.

31. The NCAA had no full-time administrator until 1951, when Walter Byers was appointed executive director.

32. Mark Emmert made the comments in an email sent Saturday to the NCAA board of governors and other university presidents.

33. Dwight Edward Clark played college football at Clemson University before being drafted by the 49ers in the 10th round of the 1979 NFL Draft.

34. Jesse Palmer played college football for the University of Florida, and then, he played professionally for the New York Giants of the NFL before spending half the 2006 season with all the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League.

35. Nick Saban is the only coach in college football to win three BCS Championships and the first coach since Nebraska's Tom Osborne to win three National Championships.

36. Barry Sanders was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2003.

37. Dean Smith coached from 1961 to 1997 and retired with 879 victories, which was the NCAA Division I men's basketball record at that time.

38. Desmond Howard currently works for ESPN as a college football analyst.

39. Earl Campbell was inducted into both the College Football Hall of Fame and Pro Football Hall of Fame (1991).

40. Ohio State survived a brief scare against Nebraska to keep its College Football Playoff hopes alive.

41. Jordan Howard ended up going to play college football just a few miles away from his home at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in Birmingham, Alabama.

42. Al Horford played his college basketball at the University of Florida where he won two NCAA Championships.

43. In 2014, the NCAA Championships set a record high of a $989 Million in net revenue.

44. In 1997, the NCAA made it a requirement that the Final Four must be held in a dome stadium with a seating capacity of at least 40,000.

45. Lee Corso was honored with the NCFAA's Contributions to College Football Award "recognizing exceptional contributions to college football and a lifetime of achievement and integrity" during the Home Depot College Football Awards show at Walt Disney World on December 9, 2010.

46. The NCAA accepted the revised bill and continues to host events in Indiana.

47. Ohio State remains in the Big Ten championship and College Football Playoff race with two regular-season games left despite the fact the Buckeyes are still searching for a complete-game performance.

48. Lou Holtz was a member of the Delta Upsilon fraternity, played college football as an undersized linebacker, and graduated in 1959 with a degree in History.

49. The NCAA provided a breakdown of how those revenues were in turn spent, organizing pay-outs and expenses into some 14 basic categories.

50. On May 4, 2018, LaMelo Ball signed with the Los Angeles Ballers of the Junior Basketball Association, a new league created by his father as an alternative to college basketball.

51. On May 1, 2008, Lou Holtz was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame.

52. In 2014, the NCAA set a record high of a $989 Million in net revenue.

53. Mark Emmert said the NCAA will host other championship events in the state.

54. At this point, Jim Harbaugh has basically become biggest cartoon character in college football.

55. Walter Camp was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1951.

56. Dean Smith holds many records, including 65 NCAA tournament wins, and 17 regular season titles in the Atlantic Coast Conference.

57. Historically, the NCAA Championships has used its authority in deciding on host cities to promote its core values.

58. In 1907, LSU Tigers became the first American college football team to play on foreign soil in the 1907 Bacardi Bowl against the University of Havana on Christmas Day in Havana, Cuba.

59. Leonard Fournette is one of the top college football players in the country.

60. Condoleezza Rice has become increasingly involved in sports, serving on the College Football Playoff selection committee and chairing a commission on college basketball.

61. In 2014, the NCAA Championship set a record high of a $989 Million in net revenue.

62. The NCAA limits the amount of compensation that individual players can receive to scholarships equal to school tuition and related expenses.

63. In September 2012, the NCAA Championships began preliminary discussions on the possibility of returning occasional Final Fours to basketball-specific arenas in major metropolitan areas.

64. Rick Pitino holds the distinction of being the only NCAA men's basketball coach to have a National Championship vacated.

65. Lee Corso was respected with the National College Football Awards Association's Contributions to College Football Award "perceiving outstanding commitments to school football and a lifetime of accomplishment and honesty" amid the Home Depot College Football Awards appear at Walt Disney World on December 9, 2010.

66. The NCAA provides a demographics database that can be openly viewed by the public.

67. Jalen Hurts was benched at halftime of the 2018 College Football Playoff National Championship for true freshman Tua Tagovailoa.

68. Desmond Howard is an American formal National Football League player who currently works as a college football analyst for ESPN.

69. Walter Camp played college football at Yale from 1876 to 1882.

70. Michigan State head coach Tom Izzo joked that he's moved on from Twitter and has a new enemy: the way college basketball officials enforce new rules, particularly ones designed to supposedly.

71. Jarvis Landry played college football at Louisiana State University for the LSU Tigers and was drafted by the Miami Dolphins in the second round of the 2014 NFL Draft.

72. Walter Camp was acknowledged as the single greatest influence upon both the development of college football and its popularity with the American public.

73. Lincoln Riley has led the Sooners to two College Football Playoff berths since taking over for Bob Stoops in 2017.

74. De'Aaron Fox played one season of college basketball for the Kentucky Wildcats.

75. In 1961 Dean Smith became North Carolina's head coach, inheriting a program that had won the NCAA championship in 1957 under McGuire, who left to coach in the professional National Basketball Association after the school received sanctions for recruiting violations.

76. Josh Norman played college football at Coastal Carolina, and was drafted by the Carolina Panthers in the fifth round of the 2012 NFL Draft.

77. UCLA Bruins was ineligible to play in the NCAA tournament that year because in those days only conference champions went to the tournament.

78. The Florida State Seminoles were the first college football team in history to go wire-to-wire since the AP began releasing preseason rankings in 1936.

79. Nick Saban became the first coach in college football history to win a national championship with two different Football Bowl Subdivision schools since the inception of the AP Poll in 1936.

80. The NCAA says it doesn't want you to gamble on your bracket.

81. Historically, the NCAA has used its authority in deciding on host cities to promote its core values.

82. Florida State Seminoles have the tenth-highest winning percentage among all college football programs in Division I FBS history with over 500 victories.

83. Oklahoma Sooners has 27 inductees in the College Football Hall of Fame.

84. On November 12, 2015 De'Aaron Fox committed to the University of Kentucky to play college basketball for head coach John Calipari.

85. The NCAA Championship says it doesn't want you to gamble on your bracket.

86. Peyton Manning was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 2017, his first year of eligibility for the honor, and was inducted during a ceremony in December.

87. LaMelo Ball said he hopes to play college basketball at a top school.

88. Clemson Tigers was selected as the one seed in the second College Football Playoff and defeated the fourth seed Oklahoma on December 31, 2015 in the 2015 Orange Bowl.

89. Mark Emmert is the fifth CEO of the NCAA; he was named as the incoming president on April 27, 2010, and assumed his duties on November 1, 2010.

90. The NCAA had called the sport "sand volleyball" until June 23, 2015, when it announced that it would use the internationally recognized name of "beach volleyball".

91. The NCAA accepted the revised bill and continues to host events in Indiana.

92. In January 2018, Mack Brown was selected to enter the College Football Hall of Fame.

93. In October 2013, Condoleezza Rice was selected to be one of the 13 inaugural members of the College Football Playoff selection committee.

94. Dean Smith was a Hall of Fame member for his years as a college basketball coach.

95. Dwayne Haskins is one of the most confident college football players you'll find.

96. Barry Sanders became the starting halfback in 1988 and rushed for 2,628 yards—the best single-season rushing performance in the history of the National Collegiate Athletic Association—winning the Heisman Trophy that year as the nation's best college football player.

97. Martavis Bryant played college football at Clemson, and was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the fourth round of the 2014 NFL Draft.

98. Keith Jackson began calling college football games for ABC Sports when it acquired the broadcast rights for NCAA football in 1966.

99. In 1997, the NCAA Championship made it a requirement that the Final Four must be held in a dome stadium with a seating capacity of at least 40,000.

100. Mitch Trubisky played college football at North Carolina, and was drafted by the Bears with the second overall pick in the 2017 NFL Draft.

101. DeAaron Fox played one season of college basketball for the Kentucky Wildcats.

102. Joe Paterno was a long-time advocate for some type of college football playoff system.

103. Jarvis Landry attended and played college football for LSU from 2011 to 2013 under head coach Les Miles.

104. Walter Camp proposed at the US College Football 1880 rules convention that the contested scrimmage be replaced with a "line of scrimmage" where the team with the ball started with uncontested possession.

105. Mitch Trubisky committed to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to play college football under head coach Larry Fedora.

106. Ohio State still struggling on defense as College Football Playoff race heats up.

107. The College Football Playoff is in its first year, comprising two national-level semifinals and one final.

108. Rick Pitino led the team to its first NCAA tournament appearance in 24 years.

109. Alabama Crimson Tide head coach Nick Saban has won six national championships en route to establishing himself as the top college football coach in the game today.

110. The NCAA provides a demographics database that can be openly viewed by the public.

111. Amari Cooper played college football at the University of Alabama where he was the Biletnikoff Award winner as the nation's top receiver and a unanimous All-American in 2014.

112. Derrick Henry was awarded the 2015 Heisman Trophy for being the most outstanding college football player.

113. Jimmy Fallon has used "puppy prognosticators" to predict a variety of sporting events, including the Kentucky Derby, the NCAA Final Four and the college football championship.

114. Tom Harmon was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1954.

115. The NCAA Championship provides a demographics database that can be openly viewed by the public.

116. In October 2013, Condoleezza Rice was selected to be one of the thirteen inaugural members of the College Football Playoff selection committee.

117. In 2013, Tom Izzo was voted as the fifth angriest coach in college basketball by USA Today Sports, an honor that he cherishes.

118. De'Aaron Fox played his first competitive college basketball game against the boys from Canisius College in a match that ended in victory for his side.

119. Lee Corso let a four-letter word slip during a segment centered around the unbeaten UCF Knights, a College Football Playoff darkhorse who puts its nation-leading 22-game winning steak on the line Saturday vs Cincinnati.

120. Florida State Seminoles have made one appearance in the College Football Playoff.

121. Mark Richt played college football as a quarterback at University of Miami.

122. Mike Ditka was enshrined in the College Football Hall of Fame in 1968.

123. Tom Osborne faced 26 coaches who are in the College Football Hall of Fame.

124. Mack Brown is set to be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame next week, but that is suddenly not the biggest news surrounding the former Texas head coach.

125. LaMelo Ball was born to LaVar and Tina LaMelo Ball, who are both former college basketball players.

126. Jimmy Fallon has used "puppy prognosticators" to predict a variety of sporting events, including the Kentucky Derby, the NCAA Final Four and the college football championship.

127. The Indiana Hoosiers have seen a tremendous amount of success during Goldman's tenure when he took the team to a top ten finish in the NCAA tournament in 2005.

128. Cam Newton played college football at Auburn and was drafted as the first overall pick by the Panthers in the 2011 NFL Draft.

129. Lee Corso was honored with the National College Football Awards Association's Contributions to College Football Award "recognizing exceptional contributions to college football and a lifetime of achievement and integrity" during the Home Depot College Football Awards show at Walt Disney World on December 9, 2010.

130. Jalen Hurts started the 2017 National Championship as a true freshman, a rarity at both Alabama and in college football.

131. The NCAA Championships provides a demographics database that can be openly viewed by the public.

132. Al Horford played college basketball for the University of Florida, and was the starting center on the Florida Gators teams that won back-to-back NCAA national championships in 2006 and 2007.

133. Jim Harbaugh has coached a ton of elite-level players during his career in the NFL and college football, but one stands out above the rest, he says.

134. Joe Paterno coached five undefeated teams that won major bowl games, and in 2007 he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach.

135. The NCAA was dissatisfied with its Johnson County, Kansas suburban location noting that its location on the south edges of the Kansas City suburbs was more than 40 minutes from Kansas City International Airport.

136. Carsen Edwards is an American college basketball player for the Purdue Boilermakers.

137. Mark Emmert is not a fan of adding esports to the NCAA calendar, at least not in its current form.

138. Jimmy Fallon has used "puppy prognosticators" to predict a variety of sporting events, including the Kentucky Derby, the NCAA Final Four and the college football championship.

139. Jordan Howard began his college football career at UAB in 2013.

140. Connor Cook ended his college football career at the College Football Playoff and essentially started his NFL career in the NFL playoffs.

141. Nick Saban has won five championships over his college football coaching career.

142. Al Horford played college basketball for the University of Florida, and was the starting center on the Gators teams that won back-to-back NCAA national championships in 2006 and 2007.

143. On September 10, 2010, Bruce Pearl acknowledged the violations in the Craft affair, and admitted lying about it to the NCAA.

144. The NCAA Championships had called the sport "sand volleyball" until June 23, 2015, when it announced that it would use the internationally recognized name of "beach volleyball".

145. Tom Harmon was a legendary college football player who became a sportscaster and sired TV superstar Mark Harmon.

146. Condoleezza Rice previously served as one of the original members of the College Football Playoff selection committee from 2013 to 2016.

147. Kansas City proposed to relocate the NCAA Championships back downtown near the Crown Center complex and would locate the visitors' centre in Union Station.

148. In September 2012, the NCAA Championship began preliminary discussions on the possibility of returning occasional Final Fours to basketball-specific arenas in major metropolitan areas.

149. The NCAA provides many resources concerning the education of the college community on this topic and policies in order to foster diversity.

150. Clemson Tigers was selected to the third College Football Playoff as the second seed and defeated the third seed Ohio State on December 31, 2016 in the 2016 PlayStation Fiesta Bowl.

151. Kansas City proposed to relocate the NCAA back downtown near the Crown Center complex and would locate the visitors' centre in Union Station.

152. Tom Osborne remembers when Oregon was in the College Football playoff about four years ago, and was down an offensive lineman, a couple cornerbacks and receivers, and weren't the same team by the title game as they were earlier.

153. In 2009, the Lady Florida Gators placed seventh at the NCAA cross country championship; in 2010, they won the SEC championship for the second consecutive year.

154. Ohio State continues its quest to get back to the College Football Playoff with a trip to East Lansing, Mich.

155. Walter Payton was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1986.

156. Michigan Wolverines has won 35 conference championships, made 22 NCAA Tournament appearances and won those 2 national titles.

157. Earl Campbell attended the University of Texas at Austin, where he played college football for the Texas Longhorns football team from 1974 to 1977.

158. Tom Osborne was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1999, and in 2000, he received the Jim Thorpe Lifetime Achievement Award.

159. The NCAA Championship had called the sport "sand volleyball" until June 23, 2015, when it announced that it would use the internationally recognized name of "beach volleyball".

160. Mack Brown left Texas in 2013 and has spent the last five years at ESPN working as a college football analyst.

161. The NCAA has never sanctioned an official championship for its highest level of football, now known as Division I FBS.

162. The NCAA Championship accepted the revised bill and continues to host events in Indiana.

163. Connor Cook had a storied college football career at Michigan State including a College Football Playoff appearance during his senior season.

164. Kyler Murray played his final college football season with Oklahoma in 2018; he was scheduled to report to the A's spring training in 2019, despite entering his name for the NFL draft in the same year.

165. The NCAA Championship provides many resources to provide information and enforce this amendment.

166. Clemson Tigers has three national championships in football, the most recent coming in 2018 with a victory over Alabama in the 2019 College Football Playoff National Championship.

167. Zion Williamson is an 18-year-old college basketball player who plays for the Duke Blue Devils.

168. Walter Camp was the first of many larger-than-life characters to be produced by the world of American college football.

169. Boise State is one of 7 college football programs in the United States to have a non-green playing surface.

170. Peyton Manning played college football for the University of Tennessee, leading the Tennessee Volunteers to the 1997 SEC Championship in his senior season.

171. In 2014, the Florida Gators defeated the Alabama Crimson Tide in the first two games of the three-game Women's College World Series to win their first NCAA national championship.

172. On December 2, 2018, Bill Snyder announced his retirement from coaching college football.

173. The NCAA Championship's licensing was not required to produce the games, as rights to use teams are not licensed through the NCAA, but through entities such as individual schools and the Collegiate Licensing Company.

174. The NCAA Championships accepted the revised bill and continues to host events in Indiana.

175. Dwight Edward Clark played college football at Clemson University and was selected by the 49ers in the tenth round of the 1979 NFL Draft.

176. On January 9, 2015, Bill Snyder was announced as an inductee into the College Football Hall of Fame.

177. Jimmy Fallon has used "puppy prognosticators" to predict a variety of sporting events, including the Kentucky Derby, the NCAA Final Four and the college football championship.

178. Dwayne Haskins leads the No 6 Buckeyes against No 21 Northwestern in the conference championship game on Saturday, with a chance to get back to the College Football Playoff if some other pieces fall into place.

179. The NCAA says it doesn't want you to gamble on your bracket.

180. In 2012, Rick Pitino coached the Cardinals to the Big East tournament championship and a berth as a 4 seed in the West region of the NCAA tournament.

181. Lincoln Riley chose to remain with the Sooners despite receiving overtures from the NFL after leading Oklahoma to back-to-back College Football Playoff appearances in his first two seasons as head coach.

182. Adrian Peterson played college football at Oklahoma and was drafted by the Minnesota Vikings seventh overall in the 2007 NFL Draft.

183. Mark Emmert entered the NCAA presidency during a period of dramatic change and controversy in college athletics.

184. Jimmy Fallon has used "puppy prognosticators" to predict a variety of sporting events, including the Kentucky Derby, the NCAA Final Four and the college football championship.

185. Dean Smith played college basketball at the University of Kansas, where he won a national championship in 1952 playing for Hall of fame coach Phog Allen.

186. The NCAA provides many resources to provide information and enforce this amendment.

187. Mack Brown has spent the past five years as a college football analyst for ESPN but in recent years had expressed an interest in returning to the sideline.

188. In March 2018, ESPN announced that Sean McDonough would be leaving Monday Night Football and would return to announcing college football games.

189. Adrian Peterson finished his college football career as the Sooners' third all-time leading rusher.

190. In 2009, UCLA Bruins came first in the NCAA Central Regional, pulling off their third regional championship in the last seven years.

191. Boise State was ranked No 25 in the final College Football Playoff rankings, while Fresno State jumped the Broncos with the win and came in at No 21.

192. The NCAA had called the sport "sand volleyball" until June 23, 2015, when it announced that it would use the internationally recognized name of "beach volleyball".

193. On May 16, 2006, Joe Paterno was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame after the National Football Foundation decided to change its rules and allow any coach over the age of 75 to be eligible for the Hall of Fame instead of having to wait until retirement.

194. In 1935, the award, then known as the DAC Heisman Trophy, was created by New York City's Downtown Athletic Club to recognize the best college football player "east of the Mississippi River".

195. LaMelo Ball verbally committed to play college basketball for UCLA at the age of 13, before starting high school, becoming the third of his brothers to do so.

196. Mack Brown enjoyed great success at UNC in the mid-1990s before moving to Texas, where he cemented his status as a college football legend.

197. Carsen Edwards was born on March 12, 1998 and is an American college basketball player for the Purdue Boilermakers.

198. The NCAA Championships provides many resources concerning the education of the college community on this topic and policies in order to foster diversity.

199. On November 12, 2015 DeAaron Fox committed to the University of Kentucky to play college basketball for head coach John Calipari.

200. Jordan Howard was not a sought-after talent in high school by college football programs.

201. In 2000, John Elway was enshrined in the College Football Hall of Fame.

202. Tom Osborne still actively provides leadership in the college football ranks.

203. Kansas City proposed to relocate the NCAA Championship back downtown near the Crown Center complex and would locate the visitors' centre in Union Station.

204. The NCAA Championships provides many resources to provide information and enforce this amendment.

205. Mike Ditka was a unanimous first-team selection on the College Football All-America Team his senior year.