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- In 2008, Ohio State had the nation's largest athletic budget – a staggering $109,382,222. This equates to over $110,000 for each of Ohio State's 980 college athletes.
- Fox paid $330 million to air all Bowl Championship Series games except for the Rose Bowl from 2007-2010.
- New Orleans got an economic boost in early January 2008 by hosting the BCS National Championship game played by LSU vs. Ohio State. New Orleans brought in over $400 million.
- Merchandise royalties for the University of Texas doubled to $8 million after it won the 2006 BCS National Championship game against USC.
- NBC pays $9 million per year for the broadcast rights to home games at Notre Dame, which went 3-9 during the 2007 season. NBC investment has seen a 47% ratings drop since 2005.
- During the 07'-08' bowl season, over 1.7 million fans attended 32 bowl games and another estimated 129 million households tuned in to TV broadcast of the games.
- The 619 collegiate schools competing in NCAA football in 2007 tallied total attendance of 48,751,861 fans!
- The first college football game took place on November 6, 1869 between Rutgers University and Princeton University. This first game didn't really resemble modern college football at all. Each team had 25 players and the ball could be moved only by kicking or batting it with the feet, hands or heads - there was no forward passing. The final score was 6 - 4 for Rutgers.
- The most lopsided victory in college football history is the massive butt kicking the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets laid on Cumberland University in 1916. The Yellow Jackets showed no mercy in beating Cumberland by a score of 222 - 0! Cumberland had just one play for positive yards during the game, while Georgia Tech scored an unbelievable 32 touchdowns!
- The oldest college football bowl game is the Rose Bowl, which was first played in 1902
- The actual first football games happened at public schools in England.
- The first Heisman Trophy was awarded to Jay Berwanger of Chicago in 1935.
- The AP Poll was first implemented in 1934. Michigan is the team with the most winnings in Division I-A history with 860 wins and a 74.53% winning percentage from 1869-2006.
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