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19. Salaam wore 31 in the NFL for the Bears.
Michigan . Desmond Howard (1991) and Charles Woodson (1997) were the two for Michigan. No other school had multiple winners. Florida State would have, but Chris Weinke won his for the 2000 season, not in the 90s.
| In 1999 LaDainian Tomlinson broke the record for most rushing yards in a single game with 406 for TCU. Whose record did he break? | History of College Football
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Tony Sands . Kansas' Tony Sands broke loose for 396 yards against Missouri in 1991. Tomlinson's 406 were against UTEP.
| Between 1965 and 1985, how many different running backs from USC finished in the top three in Heisman voting (multiple times for one back counts as only one)? | History of College Football
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Six. Mike Garrett (1965), O.J. Simpson (1967,1968), Anthony Davis (1974), Ricky Bell (1975,1976), Charles White (1979), and Marcus Allen (1981) were the six. Of those, only Garrett, Simpson, White and Allen were winners.
Bill McCartney. McCartney retired suddenly after the 1994 season.
TCU. TCU defeated Marquette 16-6 in the 1937 Cotton Bowl.
Bosworth . Bosworth won the first two Butkus awards, in 1985 and 1986, as a member of the Oklahoma Sooners.
| Before the O'Brien award went to the nation's best quarterback, it was awarded to the best player at any position in the Southwest. Who won the first O'Brien award as the best southwest college football player? | History of College Football
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Earl Campbell. Campbell won the award in 1977 for Texas as a Heisman winning running back. McMahon won the first quarterback O'Brien award in 1981.
LSU. Cannon won the award in 1959 as a halfback for the LSU Tigers.
| Jay Berwanger was the first Heisman winner to be picked number one overall in the NFL draft. Who was the second person to accomplish this feat? | History of College Football
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Tom Harmon. Harmon won the Heisman in 1940 for Michigan, and then was drafted by the Chicago Bears number one overall in 1941.
Howard. Bowden coached at Howard in Washington DC.
| Most people know that Charles Woodson was the first defensive player to win the Heisman, but several players have come close. Name one of the two defenders other than Woodson who finished in the top 4 in Heisman voting in the 1990s? | History of College Football
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Emtman . Washington's Steve Emtman (1991) and Florida State's Marvin Jones(1992) were the only two.
Four. They also won the national championship in 1988.
Two. Surprisingly, he only won two, in 1994 and 1995. His teams finished second three times.
| Who is the only player to ever win the Heisman, the Maxwell, the O'Brien, and become the first overall pick in the NFL draft? | History of College Football
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Vinny Testaverde . Pretty impressive. Troy Aikman and Andre Ware both came colse, but neither of them won the Maxwell. Testaverde was drafted by the Tampa Bay Bucaneers in 1987.
| From the inception of the SEC in 1933 to the end of the 20th century, which university won the most Southeastern Conference Championships? | SEC Football History
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Alabama. Alabama won 21 SEC titles. In second place was Tennessee with 13, Georgia had 11, and Florida had 6.
| In 1992, the conference expanded from 10 teams to 12, by adding which two schools? | SEC Football History
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Arkansas and South Carolina. Arkansas came to the SEC from the now-defunct SWC, and South Carolina came to the SEC from the ACC.
| The 1997 SEC Championship was won by the Tennessee Volunteers, by a score of 30-29 on a long touchdown pass by QB Peyton Manning. Which team from the SEC West did Tennessee beat to win the title? | SEC Football History
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Auburn. In one of the most exciting SEC Championship games, Tennessee won the QB shootout between Peyton Manning and Auburn's Dameyune Craig.
Florida. Alabama went on to upset Miami in the Sugar Bowl, and win the 1992 National Championship.
Georgia. Georgia rode their sensational RB Herschel Walker to the 1980 National Championship, and three SEC titles.
Auburn. Pat Dye's Tigers won 3 straight to end the decade, though only 1 (1987) was outright.
| In the first decade of the SEC Championship Game, between 1992 and 2002, the Western Division sent 5 different teams to the SEC title game. Which team did not make it at least once? | SEC Football History
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Ole Miss. Arkansas made its first appearance in 1995, Miss. State made its in 1998, and LSU made it in 2001.
| How many teams from the West actually won the SEC title in its first decade, from 1992 to 2002? | SEC Football History
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2. The only teams to do it were Alabama (1992, '99) and LSU (2001).
3. Alabama won in 1992, Florida in 1996, and Tennessee in 1998.
| Up until the year 1998 some genius decided that the NCAA college football championship should be decided by the combination of two polls, the AP and the UPI (later USA Today). This system led to certain years when the two polls conflicted, leaving us with two champions. In which year were there two *first-time* NCAA football champions based on split poll results, and who were the teams? (Note: This covers college football history beginning in 1936, when AP polling began.) | Interesting College Football Zingers
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1990, Colorado and Georgia Tech. For both Colorado and Georgia Tech, their first NCAA college football championships were tainted by this 'split-poll' effect, Colorado winning out in the AP poll and Georgia Tech being selected by the coaches. There were also split polls in 1954, 1957, 1965, 1973, 1991 and 1997, but in each case at least one of the teams had won a previous NCAA football championship ... so the key words in the question were 'first time'!
t. The 1922 game between California (my poor Bears!) and Washington and Jefferson (who?) ended in a scoreless tie. Yes, that's right ... 0-0. The tiebreaker system had obviously not been developed at the time, and honestly ... who the heck cares about a game between Cal and Washington and Jefferson anyway?
Halfback. Jay Berwanger, aka 'The Flying Dutchman', was not only the first Heisman Trophy winner, he was also the first pick in the first NFL college draft! Though he was a great for the University of Chicago, he decided not to play after all in the NFL ... the money wasn't that great at the time.
| Heisman Trophy winner Ty Detmer became the all-time career passing leader in NCAA Division I college football during the 1991 season. With which university did Detmer play? | Interesting College Football Zingers
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BYU. Detmer, a non-Mormon Texan (though he later converted), played for BYU from 1988 until 1991. During that time he racked up an incredible 15,031 passing yards, with 63% of his passes completed. He also passed for an unbelievable 121 touchdowns, many against my beloved Utah Utes! The second leading passer during the 20th century was Tim Rattay of Louisiana Tech, who passed for 12,746 yards during his NCAA career.
Rose Bowl. Apparently anybody could get into the Rose Bowl in the 1910s! Actually, these two teams were both service teams, filling in at war time. The Mare Island Marines defeated the Camp Lewis Army team 19-7 in a game that must have only been equalled by the following year's game, when the Great Lakes Navy team defeated Mare Island 17-0! The following year was back to normal, with Harvard playing and defeating Oregon 7-6.
f. Texas Christian played against Marquette in the first Cotton Bowl game. The Horned Frogs defeated the Warriors in that 1937 game by a score of 16-6. One year prior, the Texas Christian Horned Frogs had defeated Louisiana State in the Sugar Bowl game by the baseball score of 3-2. However, this was not the first, but the second Sugar Bowl game played. The first was played in 1935 and saw Tulane defeat Temple 20-14.
Minnesota. Minnesota, not exactly known as an NCAA football powerhouse in the modern day, won the first NCAA football championship in 1936. They repeated this feat in 1940 and 1941, becoming as well the first three-time champion. Their final championship season of the 20th century came in 1960. Since then, the Golden Gophers have been hiding deep underground! (Incidentally, the second repeat champion was Army, who pulled off the accomplishment in 1944 and 1945, World War II years.)
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