History
History of College Football
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The first college football game was played in 1869 between Rutgers University and the College of New Jersey (now known as Princeton University).
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The first college football rules were written Nov. 23, 1876, in Springfield, Mass., by representatives from Columbia, Harvard, Princeton and Yale.
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The first college football game on the radio was the contest between West Virginia University and Pittsburgh University on Oct. 8, 1921, broadcast on Pittsburgh radio station KDKA-AM.
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The first college football game on TV was between Fordham University and Waynesburg University on Sept. 30, 1939. The game was broadcast by NBC and aired on W2XBS.
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The first use of instant replay during a college football game was in 1963 during a Dec. 7 Army vs. Navy game.
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The landscape of college football has changed greatly over the years with the addition of rules and other practices. A major change that has influenced college football today has been the addition of the NIL deal. Name Image and Likeness has allowed college football players to start getting paid and make money off of themselves. This has also been exploited to allow booster programs to pay players to come to their schools.
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A new update in the college football world is Texas and Oklahoma moving to the SEC. This is a pretty big movement as the Big 12 are losing some of their biggest players. This will also make the SEC more powerful as these two teams are going to add to playoff implications.