Bleeping Idiots » college scholarships http://www.bleepingidiots.com Sports Blog, for and by the bleeping idiots. Thu, 10 Feb 2011 03:23:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Is college football beginning to Even Out? http://www.bleepingidiots.com/2008/08/is-college-football-beginning-to-even-out/ http://www.bleepingidiots.com/2008/08/is-college-football-beginning-to-even-out/#comments Sat, 30 Aug 2008 22:11:16 +0000 Joel http://www.bleepingidiots.com/?p=429 Thursday night marked the official Kickoff of the 2008 college football season and with that brought the excitement of the first Saturday where teams get to start with a clean slate and try to make their way to the college elite. I for one am extremely excited for this season, but in watching today I couldn’t help but notice that college football is finally starting to even out. This dates all the way back to the early 1990′s when the NCAA started cutting the amount of football scholarships that each team was able to give out, since then the number has been reduced from 95 to 85. Now why would something like this that happened 15-16 years only start being more and more visible now? The answer is simple, it is because in cutting back the amount of scholarships that schools were allowed to give out it gave smaller schools a chance to start establishing themselves by being able to sign young player that would have originally gone to big name schools but since there were no more scholarships available than they had to look else where.

Now it is really starting to show as teams like East Carolina and Bowling Green Universities are stating to put themselves on the map in the college football world and today both teams took big steps towards establishing themselves as top competitors in todays league. Both teams played early on Saturday and both teams upset pre-season top 25 teams. East Carolina met Virginia Tech today and they showed up ready to play. Right from the get go ECU’s offense and defense played with explosion as they picked off Virginia Tech’s Sean Glennon for 2 early INT’s. They went on to win the game 27-22 after scoring on a blocked punt with 1:52 left on the game clock. Bowling Green upset the college football world by defeating number 25 Pittsburgh 27-17. These two teams are just two examples so far of how colleges top teams may be headed for more and more of a challenge as the years go on and how the chances of teams blowing through a season undefeated may be getting smaller and smaller.

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