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    Which conference is the best college football conference? By: Colin Carnes Newton County Theme School 8th Grade Sociology Curry-Miller Verification Page I verify that I, Colin James Carnes, researched this topic and typed as my father, Rod Carnes helped me to research. My mother, Wendi Carnes, helped me to edit this paper by choosing a variation of words and phrases that will not cause me to become repetitive. We did this together. “I verify that this paper was typed by me, Colin Carnes”

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    History of Soccer Football is known to be over 2,000 years old. It is traced back to ancient China in the second and third centuries BC. It was during the Han Dynasty that people made a leather ball and kicked it around. It was found that Rome and Greeks used to also enjoy playing with a leather ball as well. Many countries have claimed to have started football for example Greece, Rome, and parts of Central America but it was England however that created what we now call football. It is said that

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    thirds of U.S. adults say they currently watch NFL football (64%), including almost three quarters of men (73%) and over half of women (55%)” (“No Surprise: 64% Of Americans Watch NFL Football; 73% of Men, 55% of Women.”). Over half of America watches NFL every weekend. Imagine how many people watch college football. Many people tune in to watch football every weekend, but how many of these people are football fanatics. If sports fans support the team from where they grew up, make crazy decisions, never

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    Since its creation in 1869, football has been a major part of American society. Americans love the intensity and display of sportsmanship on and off the field. Every Sunday almost every television in America is tuned to CBS, NBC or FOX anticipating the opening kickoff for their favorite team. The National Football League, popularly known as just the NFL, is the largest professional American football league in the world. It hosts a total of 32 teams, each representing a state in the U.S. Some states

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    2016 Football America’s Favorite Sport There is nothing like hearing a big hit and the crowd going wild. Football has been growing dramatically in popularity since about 2012. There are many things that attract people to football. There are many different stages of football. Football also makes a lot of money for a variety of reasons. Although football is one of the biggest causes for injuries it still is the number one favorite sport in America. People are so attracted to football because

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    A High School Football Team is a community of students selected to play together in the school team where all the students have the fair opportunity to join the team. There will be a lot of students in the team including a student from different cultures. I was one of students who joined the football team in high school. As a Nepali refugee who had never heard of football until he came to America, the transition to play for my school team was not easy. I entered a discourse community of my High School

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    On June 26, 2012, the college football world was shocked to hear the news of a new four team playoff system coming to college football in the 2014-15 season. It wasn’t like it came out of nowhere, though. There had been mumblings of a playoff for a few years, but nothing had ever happened to put it in place. The BCS System was going to be taken out of the game of football. This caused outrage in the world of college football. Many people believed this was a bad move, but in reality, it was the

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    The game of football is one of my favorite sports. I have been following the game since I was very young boy. I am knowledgeable about mostly all of the rules and regulations for both the NFL and the NCAAF. The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league consisting of 32 teams, divided equally between the National Football Conference (NFC) and the American Football Conference(AFC). The NFL is one of the four major professional sports leagues in North America, and the highest

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    From the beginning of the decade extraordinary athletes had emerged from approximately every sport - with football being a huge impact on that era. Football had been played for years, with the first ever game being recorded on November 6, 1869 between Rutgers University and Princeton University, with the game taking place at Rutgers in Brunswick, New Jersey (Scott, 3). American football surfaced in the 1880’s being a spinoff of rugby created by yale student, Walter Camp (Hallas, 1). This is where

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    College sports continue to be one of the largest businesses in America, with millions of viewers, jobs, and players. For the countless numbers of amateur athletes, college sporting events represent high quality competition, education about the sport, and shear excitement of cheering on the favorite team. Although sporting equality differs in the minds of people, I encourage athletes to focus on the academic side of school. Within all the publicity these highly recruited players receive, the rules

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