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    NCAA football is also known as College football or pigskin football.

    Each team is a college (university) and they compete in divisions. The division that has the best teams is called the Division IA and is divided in to different conferences. The players are amateurs (they do not get paid to play) but they get a scholarship. Each football team can offer a free education to 85 players. NCAA football is very popular and get crowds of 100 000 spectators and generates millions of dollars per game in the USA.

    College football is all but clear because it does not have a true championship. There are more than 114 teams and they can’t play each other during one season. So each team plays a season of 14 games within their conference.
    Each week a panel of reporters and coaches do vote on which team is pretty good and the result is compiled in a top25. It is a ranking based on impression by humans therefore it is totally unscientific even though complicated formulas are used to come up with the ranking therefore many discussions of fans are based on their idea why such a team is ranked so high or so low in the top 25.
    The post season is a trip to a bowl. Cities that organize bowls invite teams to come compete for a game. Usually teams are selected according to how much money they will bring to the city with their fans. The team that wins the bowl gets a paycheck that can range from $500 thousands to $17 millions! For many years the top 1 and 2 did not play against each other so there was no way to really know which the best team was. But now there is the Bowl Championship Series that is a game where the number one and number two teams play. So that is the real final.
    However, for example in 2003 LSU and USC were both named number 1. LSU, USC and Oklahoma were very tight in the ranking. There was 3 teams for 2 spots. LSU ended up wining its bowl game against Oklahoma, but USC also won its game. AS USC and LSU could not play each other as the season was over both were named number 1.

    Here is the list of the universities that did pretty well in getting glory (winning the national championship).

    1883-20061970-2006
    Pos. NameNCAA Champions
    1 Notre Dame Fighting Irish 11
    Yale Bulldogs 11
    2 USC Trojans 10
    3 Alabama Crimson Tide 8
    4 Harvard Crimson 7
    Oklahoma Sooners 7
    Princeton Tigers 7
    5 Michigan Wolverines 6
    Minnesota Golden Gophers 6
    6 Miami Hurricanes 5
    Nebraska Cornhuskers 5
    Ohio State Buckeyes 5
    7 Pennsylvania Quakers 4
    Pittsburgh Panthers 4
    Texas Longhorns 4
    8 Army Black Knights 3
    Cornell Big Red 3
    Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets 3
    9 Florida State Seminoles 2
    Illinois Fighting Illini 2
    LSU Tigers 2
    Michigan State Spartans 2
    Penn State Nittany Lions 2
    Tennessee Volunteers 2
    10 Auburn Tigers 1
    BYU Cougars 1
    California Golden Bears 1
    Chicago Maroons 1
    Clemson Tigers 1
    Colorado Buffaloes 1
    Florida Gators 1
    Georgia Bulldogs 1
    Maryland Terrapins 1
    Syracuse Orange 1
    TCU Horned Frogs 1

    2006Florida Gators defeated Ohio State Buckeyes
    2005Texas Longhorns
    2004USC Trojans
    2003cochampions LSU Tigers / USC Trojans
    2002Ohio State Buckeyes
    2001Miami Hurricanes
    2000Oklahoma Sooners
    1999Florida State Seminoles
    1998Tennessee Volunteers
    1997cochampions Michigan Wolverines / Nebraska Cornhuskers
    Pos. NameNCAA Champions
    1
    USC Trojans
    5

    Miami Hurricanes
    5

    Nebraska Cornhuskers
    5
    2
    Oklahoma Sooners
    4
    3
    Notre Dame Fighting Irish
    3

    Alabama Crimson Tide
    3
    4
    Texas Longhorns
    2

    Florida State Seminoles
    2

    Penn State Nittany Lions
    2
    5
    Michigan Wolverines
    1

    Ohio State Buckeyes
    1

    Pittsburgh Panthers
    1

    Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
    1

    LSU Tigers
    1

    Tennessee Volunteers
    1

    BYU Cougars
    1

    Clemson Tigers
    1

    Colorado Buffaloes
    1

    Florida Gators
    1

    Georgia Bulldogs
    1

    That is all for now. Thanks for the read.