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New college football playoff system gets a less-than-original name
The name for college football's new playoff system is … "College Football Playoff." "Brand X" and "Your Name Here" apparently were already taken. College football commissioners meeting in Pasadena this week were looking for simplicity in...
Tags: Pacific-12 Conference, Cowboys Stadium, Football, College Football, Bowl Championship Series
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UCLA kicker Ka'imi Fairbairn ready to fill some big shoes
UCLA ends practice the same way every day: Ka’imi Fairbairn stares at the goal posts from 52 yards away and to the left. Fairbairn stood at that distance and angle in December, watching his field goal attempt hook wide. He then watched Stanford...
Tags: Stanford Cardinal, Pacific-12 Conference, Football, Christian Yount, UCLA Bruins
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Cowboys Stadium to play host to first championship game in new format
Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, will play host to the first championship game in the new College Football Playoff. "The stadium itself was the biggest determiner," Bowl Championship Series Executive Director Bill Hancock said after the...Tags: Cowboys Stadium, Football, College Football, Bowl Championship Series, New Year's Day
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Power conferences in college football gain even more strength
College football commissioners were going to end their three-day unity conference in Pasadena with a round of "Kumbaya" at the hotel's valet carport. That was before the consulting firm that dreamed up "College Football Playoff" suggested something more...
Tags: National Football League, Big East Conference, Pacific-12 Conference, Big 12 Conference, Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
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The Knoxville News-Sentinel, Tenn., Mike Strange column
Knoxville News SentinelOn Nov. 29, 2008, when Phillip Fulmer coached his last football game at Tennessee, the SEC had won two consecutive national championships. That same Saturday Fulmer bowed out with one last win over Kentucky, Alabama beat Auburn to finish the regular...Tags: Orange Bowl, Nick Saban, Alabama Crimson Tide, Florida Gators, NFL Draft
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Wisconsin's Montee Ball selected by Broncos
Milwaukee Journal SentinelPerhaps Montee Ball packed a crystal ball rather than a football when he traveled to Indianapolis for the 2013 National Football League Scouting Combine. During an interview session with reporters Ball said: "I try to model my game after Terrell Davis....Tags: Super Bowl, National Football League, John Elway, Nebraska Cornhuskers, Peyton Manning
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New College Football Playoff format takes shape; Orange Bowl 'very excited' about its role
The Palm Beach PostThe college football world is wildly excited about the upcoming four-team playoff, but seems mildly disappointed with the bland title for it: College Football Playoff. Florida coach Will Muschamp likes it. "I think the name sounds pretty good," he...Tags: ESPN (tv network), Orange Bowl, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Cowboys Stadium, BCS National Championship Game
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New College Football Playoff won't shut out South Florida
Miami HeraldOne of the benefits of the outgoing Bowl Championship Series system for the Orange Bowl was that regardless of what happened on the field each season, college football's national championship game was guaranteed to be played in South Florida once every...Tags: Orange Bowl, Mercedes-Benz Superdome, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Pacific-12 Conference, Cowboys Stadium
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Rose Bowl prepares to usher in a new era
Los Angeles Daily NewsThe trouble, it seemed, was maintaining a connection to the past without fading into irrelevance. Faced with college football's inevitable transition into a playoff system, the Rose Bowl Game grappled with how it would transition while remaining the...Tags: Pacific-12 Conference, Frank Lloyd Wright, Football, BCS National Championship Game, College Football
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Glendale's Frank Wykoff, Frank Albert, Hoover's Jack Davis among CIF's 100 greatest
With an eye on the future, the CIF Southern Section remembered its past when it unveiled its “100 Athletes for 100 Years” on Saturday at a reception in Los Angeles. The list featured three former local standouts who helped blaze trails...
Tags: National Football League, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Awards and Prizes, Stanford Cardinal, Jesse Owens
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BCS playoff system is simple; so is its name
Miami HeraldSo here's the name, announced Tuesday, the powers that be came up with for the major Division I college football playoff system for which some fans spent decades pining and whining for, and which was requested by the current president of these United...Tags: Orange Bowl, Super Bowl, National Football League, Mercedes-Benz Superdome, The Miami Herald
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The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson, Greg Hansen column
The Arizona Daily Star, TucsonThe climax to every week at Camp Cochise, the can't-miss, feel-good-about-life moment, arrived when Dick Tomey stood in the middle of 100 football players and awarded a scholarship to a once-obscure walk-on. On August 18, 1988, the coach pointed to No....Tags: Rob Gronkowski, Pacific-12 Conference, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Nick Foles, Football
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