Fun Fact Friday!

Good Friday to everyone, especially those who get the three day weekend! WOO Labour Day! For this weeks fun facts I was very torn between two topics: Political Party Conventions, and College Football. Since only the Dems have had their convention, I'm going to save that bad boy for next week, and celebrate the beginning of college football this week. Horay!



For those who are as excited for college football as I am, last night was like Christmas Eve, you got a taste of what's to come but still haven't got to the big day (unless you're a weirdo and open your presents on Christmas Eve instead of Christmas Day. What's your problem?). So since I'm a West-Coaster born and raised, and am filled with East-Coast bias conspiracies, I'm gonna focus on the left side of the nation as much as possible. Suck it Mark May.



The Pac-10 currently supports 22 sports, and their headquarters are at Walnut Creek, California. The largest school in the Pac-10 by enrollment numbers is Arizona State with over 64 thousand students. When the conference was first established in 1915 there were only four schools: Cal, Oregon, Oregon State, and Washington. It did not become the Pac-10 conference until 1978 when it added the two Arizona schools to its repertoire. Since there are at least two schools in the conference in each state, there are a couple of infamous inter-boarder rivalries. The winner of the Big Game between Cal and Stanford wins the Stanford Axe, Washington and Washington State fight in the Apple Cup, Arizona and Arizona State battle it out for the Territorial Cup in the Duel in the Desert, the winner of USC-UCLA gets the Victory Bell, and last but definitely not least the two Oregon schools play in the Civil War for the recently recovered Platypus Trophy.

With today's Bowl system some old timers claim that it ruins the meaning of the postseason to have so many bowls. Some are named the San Diego Community Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl, and the Gaylord (not Focker) Hotels Bowl, which gives them a legitamite argument. While there are around thirty-two bowls, only fourteen different states host bowls, including one bowl in Canada! California, Texas, and Florida are the three biggest sites for bowls. The first bowl game was played in 1902, which pitted the University of Michigan and Stanford University. It was at the Rose Bowl and Michigan won 49-0, being the last time a Big Ten(Eleven) team won a big time bowl game. OH SNAP!

Have a lovely weekend, and rejoice, football is back.