How does college football work in America?
Posted by admin on Aug 10, 2008 in Football (American) |
d_khar asked:
Ok, I recently brought a PSP game called NCAA 2007. Having played Madden for many years I know what Im doing on the football field…but then there’s all this college stuff I dont understand like redshirts (what on earth is a redshirt and why do I want one!?) what are juniors, seniors and freshmen (there’s anotherone that I cant remember off the top of my head) and how do I make them climb the ranks of seniorhood? And how the hell does the ranking system work with bowls and the heismen trophy work!?!? In season recriuting…what is going on there!?
Ok, I recently brought a PSP game called NCAA 2007. Having played Madden for many years I know what Im doing on the football field…but then there’s all this college stuff I dont understand like redshirts (what on earth is a redshirt and why do I want one!?) what are juniors, seniors and freshmen (there’s anotherone that I cant remember off the top of my head) and how do I make them climb the ranks of seniorhood? And how the hell does the ranking system work with bowls and the heismen trophy work!?!? In season recriuting…what is going on there!?
They are all terms I’ve heard of but I have no idea (other than playing the football game itself) what any of these mean!!! Any help?
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Redshirts- You can Redshirt a freshman player. he can not play that year, but will become a better player through experience and training. I may be wrong, but they also get an extra year of playing time.
2- The Freshman, Sophmore, Junior, and Senior Ranks are what year of college the player is in. If you’re entering college, you’re freshman. If you’re in your last year, you are a senior. Students progress once a year: Freshman-Sophmore-Junior-Senior.
3- The BCS is a hazy mystery, but four bowls every year are known as the sites for BCS Bowls: Rose Bowl, Orange Bowl, etc. As for getting to bgowl games themselves, the only way to ever be sure you’re going to get in is to win. Unlike the pros, there are no playoffs. You play one game and that’s it. Just one loss in the regular season can dash all hopes of being in the title game, and even some teams that have went undefeated weren’t invited.
4- Recruiting, In-Season and normal, are just the colleges trying to get High School seniors and JUCO(Junior College) Students to come to campus.
5- Hesiman Trophy- It’s the best player in the nation, just like the MVP in the NFL. It is open to all college players in Division 1, be it Defensive, Offensive, Freshman or Senior and everything in between.
Redshirt is another word for being benched basically many freshman have this done to them on sports team.
Freshman, Sophmore, Jounior, and Senoir are all the class that the student is in. For example a first year college student is a freshman, a second year student is a sophmore and so forth. I have never played the game but I guess you would have to play the game with the player for 4 years to make them reach senoirhood.
For the rest I cant help you with sorry. Check out the they make the game and look it up on for more info.
In the college football, the coaches are in competing for the high school players. If you get the best high school players you will one of best college football teams that is part of recruiting. Redshirts— means that a college player did play football, even though he is on team and went to school. He could not played for any reason–Injury, academics or coach decision. Freshman–1st year, Sophmore–2nd year, Junior–3rd year, Senior–4th year of college. The general rule of college athletes have four of eligilbilty playing sports. The ranking system rank the best college teams, the best qualify for bowls, the higher rankings the better the bowls. Heismen trophy is for the best college player. Good Luck
Freshman- First year in college
Sophmore (the one you forgot)- Second year
Junior- Third year
Senior- Fourth and usually last year (unless you’re in med school or something that requires more credits)
A college football player can play for at most 4 years or seasons, but if they are redshirted, that means they missed a year due to an injury or they may use a year to practice with the team without participating in the actual games. For instance, a redshirt freshman means the player is acedemically a sophmore (second year in school) but it is the first year they played with the team. Here’s the address to the Wikipedia page of it to help explain it some more:)
And the BCS college rankings are crap. They seem to be wrong just about every year. They should get some sort of playoff system. I’m not too sure on how the players are eligible for the Heisman Trophy, but I think it’s only for junior and senior offensive players, but don’t hold me to that. I only just got into college football a few years ago just so I could know who we pick in the drafts.
Hope this helped some. Cheers!