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A college football game between Colorado State University and the Air Force Academy.

College football is American football played by teams of students fielded by American universities and colleges, including United States military academies. It was the venue through which American football first gained popularity in the United States. College football remains extremely popular today among students, alumni, and other fans of the sport, particularly in the Southern and Midwestern parts of the country.

The first game played between teams representing American colleges was played under rules more similar to the 1863 rules of the English Football Association, the basis of the modern form of soccer. The game, between Rutgers University and Princeton University, took place on November 6, 1869 at College Field (now the site of the College Avenue Gymnasium), New Brunswick, New Jersey. Rutgers won, by a score of 6 "runs" to 4.

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The Heisman Memorial Trophy Award (also known simply as the Heisman Trophy or The Heisman), named after former college football player and coach John W. Heisman, is considered the most prestigious award in American college football. It is awarded annually before the postseason bowl games.

The prestige in the award stems from a number of factors. Though balloting is open for all football players in all divisions of college, the winners usually represent Division I-A schools. In addition to incredible personal stats, team achievements play a heavy role in the voting - a typical Heisman winner represents a team that had an outstanding season and is most likely in contention for a DI-A national championship. Further prestige is granted by experience - no freshmen or sophomores have ever won the award, and only a few juniors have held the bronze trophy; the rest have been seniors. Finally, the Heisman is almost always awarded to a running back or a quarterback; very few players have won the trophy playing at a different position. (more}

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The Rose Bowl, one of just four American football stadia to have been designated by the United States Department of the Interior as a National Historic Landmark, a stadium in the Los Angeles suburb Pasadena, California, United States, is best known for hosting annually an eponymous National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I bowl game and concomitant Tournament of Roses Parade and for having hosted by iterations of the National Football League's championship game.

Opened in 1922, the stadium saw its first Rose Bowl the next year and hosted the matchup between the champions of the Pacific Ten and Big Ten Conferences each year from 1947 to 1998. In 1998, the Rose Bowl game joined the Bowl Championship Series and the stadium has since hosted various elite teams; in January 2006, the BCS title game ending the 2005 season was contested at the Rose Bowl, as the University of Texas, in a contest described by many television commentators as the best championship game ever, claimed a three-point victory over the University of Southern California.

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Wayne Woodrow "Woody" Hayes (February 14, 1913March 12, 1987) was an American football coach who is best remembered for his 28-year tenure at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio from 1951-1978.

As head coach with the Buckeyes, Hayes would lead his teams to a 205-61-10 record, winning five national championships ('54, '57, '61, '68, and '70), 13 Big Ten Conference titles and four of the team's eight Rose Bowl appearances. He's also the only coach to ever send a team to four consecutive Rose Bowl games. {more}

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