the michigan wolverines has won the most games in college football history.
the michigan wolverines has won the most games in college football history.
who has won the most games in college football history?
the michigan wolverines
the next year, 1902, featured a contest between michigan and the wisconsin badgers. the two teams were undefeated since 1900, and the crowd (20,000–22,000) was the largest in western football history. michigan won, 6–0, leading the "detroit free press" to call it "the greatest football game ever played on a western gridiron." the undefeated 1902 team outscored its opponents 644 to 12 on its way to an 11–0 season. in 1903, michigan played a game against minnesota that started the rivalry for the little brown jug, the oldest rivalry trophy in college football. yost sent a student assistant to purchase a five-gallon water jug from a local store. after the game ended in a tie, yost forgot the jug in the locker room. custodian oscar munson discovered it and brought it to l. j. cooke, who painted the jug brown and wrote "michigan jug – captured by oscar, october 31, 1903. michigan 6, minnesota 6." when yost requested that the jug be returned, cooke responded that "if you want it, you'll have to win it." the game marked the only time from 1901 to 1904 that michigan failed to win. michigan finished the season at 11–0–1. in 1904, michigan once again went undefeated at 10–0 while recording one of the most lopsided defeats in college football history, a 130–0 defeat of the west virginia mountaineers.
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college football has been played for over one hundred years, but the game and the organizational structure of college football have evolved significantly during that time. the first college football game was played in 1869, but the game continued to develop during the late 19th and early 20th century. during this period, walter camp pioneered the concept of a line of scrimmage, the system of downs, and the college football all-america team. the 1902 rose bowl was the first bowl game in college football history, and the event began to be held annually starting with the 1916 rose bowl. in the 1930s, other bowl games came into existence, including the sugar bowl, the cotton bowl classic, and the orange bowl. the 1906 college football season was the first season played under the iaaus (which would later change its name to the ncaa) and the first season in which the forward pass was legal. the iaaus had formed after president theodore roosevelt, responding to several deaths that had occurred during football games, requested that colleges find ways to make football a safer sport. in 1935, the heisman trophy was presented for the first time; the award is generally considered to be college football's most prestigious individual award. in 1965, the ncaa voted to allow the platoon system, in which different players played on offense and defense; teams had previously experimented with the concept in the 1940s. in 1968, the ncaa began allowing freshmen to compete in games; freshmen had previously been required to take a redshirt year. in 1975, after a growth of "grants-in-aid" (scholarships given for athletic rather than academic or need-based reasons), the ncaa voted to limit the number of athletic scholarships each school could offer. in 1968, the ncaa required all teams to identify as members of either the university division (for larger schools) or the college division (for smaller schools), and in 1973, the ncaa divided into three divisions. at the urging of several larger schools seeking increased autonomy and commonality, division i-a was formed prior to the 1978 season; the remaining teams in division i formed the football championship subdivision or fcs (then known as division i-aa). in 1981, members of the college football association attempted to create a fourth division consisting solely of the most competitive schools, but this effort was defeated. in the 1992 season, the sec split into divisions and played the first fbs conference championship game. the big 12 and western athletic conference did the same for the 1996 season, and most conferences eventually adopted divisions and championship games.
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