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Sitelines: A road map to college football's Internet highway
If you can't get enough college football on the field or tube, the Internet offers more than two million clickable choices.
Everything from team photos to recruiting ramblings are available to satiate the most rabid fan's appetite.
The following Web sites are not necessarily on everyone's favorites list, but they provide something to nibble on as you wait for the ribs to grill before the next tailgate party.
Collegio Football
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"Collegio" is Italian for college, and this site is "molto bene" or very beneficial for college football fans. If statistics and Excel programs are your bag, Collegio Football is nearly impossible to beat.
It's the encyclopedia of college football in software form.
The site offers a software program for $29 that can be updated each Monday during the season and contains just about everything you want to know about your team — past and present.
How did it rank in attendance last season? How did it do in 1923? You can get historic box scores for 4,000 games, 7,000-plus historic Las Vegas lines. ... Well, you get the picture.
The program includes academic information (average standardized test scores, grad rates, percent of alumni donating, etc.). This feature alone should be on every college football recruit's list.
When they say they were thinking of calling it "Everything But the Kitchen Sink College Football," they were not kidding because there are too many leftovers to digest.
Husker Pedia
Want to know how to get tickets for any Nebraska football game? Join millions of other Cornhuskers faithful. This site can aid your ticket search. Better yet, if you want the evolution of the powerful Big Red offense with a CD-ROM playbook or the game scripts for virtually every Cornhuskers game in recent seasons, you're in luck.
This site is hard-pore corn for those who bleed Nebraska red. Everything from merchandise (Huskers shampoo) to all-time football alums to places to watch Huskers TV games in all 50 states. The site is put together very well with easy-to-find icons, links and tons of tidbits. Like many sites, it has a ticker on the main page for those who count the seconds to kickoff. This is hog heaven for Huskers fans. Oops, wrong state.
Herman Wedemeyer
A site dedicated to the late Herman "The Hawaiian Centipede" Wedemeyer, who played at St. Mary's College in the mid-1940s and was the first All-American from the Islands.
He played professionally in 1948 and 1949 for the Los Angeles Dons and the Baltimore Colts in the All-American Football Conference.
Who, you ask? Hawaiians knew him as one of their most famous residents. TV viewers may remember him as Duke Lukela from "Hawaii Five-O!"
If you want a history lesson or are a fan of the show ... bookmark this one, Danno!
Tailgate Town
Licensed merchandise for several sports teams can be bought online from this Charlotte, N.C.-based company.
Everything from hats and chairs to body pillows and, of course, tailgate tables, can be purchased. And if you're entertaining guests, the site also offers sports bars with a "golden pine" finish for more than 40 colleges and every major-league baseball team.
If you have no particular allegiance to a school, a no-logo pine bar is available. Stools, chairs and beverages of your choice are extra.
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Data Warehouse
This site provides a year-by-year history of almost every I-A and I-AA team and even has the progression of scoring — PATs were worth double TDs (4-2) when the game first started in the late 1800s. It also has an icon for questions about little-known opponents.
If you find the postseason appealing, get ready to be bowled over.
Users can find results for every college bowl game ever played. Remember the one-and-done Coffee Bowl? No, it wasn't in Seattle. Try London in March 1944. How about the Iodine Bowl in Charleston, S.C., or the Yam Bowl in Dallas? Who said life should be limited to a bowl of cherries?
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