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The International Bowl was the first bowl game played outside the United States since the Bacardi Bowl in 1937. [4] However, the game was discontinued after its 2010 edition. [9] Two international games were played as part of the 2014 NCAA Division I FBS football season.
A national championship in the highest level of college football in the United States, currently the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), is a designation awarded annually by various organizations to their selection of the best college football team. Division I FBS football is the only National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA ...
That event was discontinued after its 2011 edition once the NCAA announced it would sponsor an official Division III championship starting in 2012. The historical championship event outcomes included in the primary list section were decided by actual games organized for the purpose of determining a champion on the field of play.
In the inaugural season of Division I-AA, the 1978 postseason included just four teams; three regional champions (East, West, and South) plus an at-large selection. [1] The field doubled to eight teams in 1981, with champions of five conferences—Big Sky, Mid-Eastern, Ohio Valley, Southwestern, and Yankee—receiving automatic bids. [2]
The first post-regular season conference championship game played in Division I-A football (what is now Division I FBS) was the 1992 SEC Championship Game, won by Alabama over Florida. [2] The SEC had gone from being a 10-team conference in 1991, to being a 12-team conference—divided into two six-team divisions—in 1992. [3]
Sigma Xi was founded at Cornell University by a junior faculty member and a small group of graduate students in 1886 and is one of the oldest honor societies. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Membership in Sigma Xi is by invitation only, where members nominate others on the basis of their research achievements or potential. [ 4 ]
The inaugural College Football Playoff games in January 2015 generated larger ratings than previous BCS games. The 2015 College Football Playoff National Championship had an 18.9 Nielsen rating [ 111 ] and was watched by approximately 33.4 million people, the largest broadcast audience of all time on American cable television (non- broadcast ...
Map of the FCS football programs, 2024. This is a list of schools in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) that play football in the United States as a varsity sport and are members of the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), known as Division I-AA from 1978 through 2005.