Test Your College Football Knowledge

[falafel]

No cheating, folks. No Google, no lifelines, nothing. Just from memory. Honor system in effect.

First:

http://www.sporcle.com/games/ncaamajorconference.php

Second:



Third:



Post your scores for all to see.

First: 63/73 - Stupid Big East and all of its inconsequential schools.

Second: 73/120 - many of those shouldn't count. Who got Middle Tennessee?

Also, its a real bummer that more people know the Akron Zips than know the Cougars or the Utes.

Third: 12/16. No comment.

[Babs]

Second: 73/120 - many of those shouldn't count. Who got Middle Tennessee?

I did on account of we play them as our season opener every year.

[TripletDaddy]

Update:

BCS Conference Stud: New Mexican Disaster (73)
Nicknames Stud: New Mexican Disaster (120)
Heisman Stud: Junkie (16)

NMD and Junkie deserve honorable mentions. Junkie had 72 and 120, placing just behind NMD. And NMD had 15 for Heismans, placing just behind Junkie.

I'd be interested to see the scores for JaySantos and Rockstar Balboa, as they are established all-around sports nuts.

[Babs]

I thought the Heisman one was pretty easy. I got all of those.

I bombed the Big East in the first one, missed one ACC and got all the others. Got interrupted and didn't finish the second quiz, but it wasn't going so well, either.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

I agree I applaud their knowledge. I would have scored higher in football season, but they killed it when it isn't even time to think about football. Well done.

[Indy Coug]

69, 106, 14

[Indy Coug]

Second: 73/120 - many of those shouldn't count. Who got Middle Tennessee?

I did. I played a HS football game in their stadium.

[beelzebabette]

I did much better on this nickname one (only the major conferences):
http://www.sporcle.com/games/ncaateamnames.php

[New Mexican Disaster]

Update:

BCS Conference Stud: New Mexican Disaster (73)
Nicknames Stud: New Mexican Disaster (120)
Heisman Stud: Junkie (16)

NMD and Junkie deserve honorable mentions. Junkie had 72 and 120, placing just behind NMD. And NMD had 15 for Heismans, placing just behind Junkie.

I'd be interested to see the scores for JaySantos and Rockstar Balboa, as they are established all-around sports nuts.

I used to wile away the hours in law school by trying to write down all 319 (at that time) division one basketball teams and as many mascots as I could remember. Then I would put them in conferences and try to get everything right. Then I would try to name the cities that they were in.

After I got tired of that I would try to make a list of all the countries in the world that I could name, all of their capitals, and as many heads of state as I could name.

I am a freak. But you know I would do anything to avoid listening to a civil procedure lecture. Consequently, I have no idea what the bulge rule is, but I laugh every time I hear it spoken of (for obvious reasons). And if I ever meet anyone from Buies Creek, North Carolina, I can say "oh, you must be a Campbell Camels fan. What a gift!

[NorthShoreCoug]

I'm late to the party, but fwiw, i got:

65 (every miss was in the Big East)
99
13

[NorthShoreCoug]

Here's another. Sounds like NMD should ace this one. I got 25.

http://www.sporcle.com/games/collegetowns.php

[Indy Coug]

Here's another. Sounds like NMD should ace this one. I got 25.

http://www.sporcle.com/games/collegetowns.php

29. Can't believe I brain cramped Oklahoma's hometown.

[FMCoug]

My score sucked but one thing I found interesting is how geographically skewed my knowledge was. I knocked out the Pac-10 and Big 12 in about 30 seconds ... the SEC was a bit harder but I got most of them. Big 10 was similar to SEC. I sucked at ACC and Big East.

Where I have lived:

Michigan
California
Pennsylvania
Utah
Oklahoma
Texas

IOW, Big 10, Pac-10, Big 12 country.

[cougjunkie]

29. Can't believe I brain cramped Oklahoma's hometown.

30. My mind went blank for West Virginia, but I remembered in the nick of time.

[LiveCoug]

Got 30