Charlemagne
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Sun Nov-06-11 06:56 PM
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Can you name the FBS schools with names that don't reference a city or state. |
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This was an AFLAC trivia question from yesterday. Can you name the FBS ( Div 1, the 119 big time football) universities that have a name that has nothing do to with the city or state in which they are located?
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Sun Nov-06-11 06:59 PM
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1. I can think of one so far: |
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Sun Nov-06-11 07:20 PM
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2. Mostly the private ones, I suppose |
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Rice, Baylor, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, Duke, Wake Forest, and Notre Dame, and Brigham Young. (Stanford is in Stanford, California, but I think the town name came later and the name of the university itself doesn't reference the town, so perhaps that counts as well.) Does the Big East have a private school that I can't think of at the moment?
Also the military academies--Navy, Army, Air Force.
As for public schools, I can only think of Temple and Rutgers, offhand.
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Sun Nov-06-11 07:41 PM
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3. Wake Forest was named for its original location Wake Forest |
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They moved away when they were lured by Camel cash.
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Sun Nov-06-11 07:47 PM
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Sun Nov-06-11 08:28 PM
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6. "TEXAS" CHRISTIAN University?? |
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Is there a state name in there??
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Sun Nov-06-11 08:43 PM
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8. They will be renaming it Tebow Christian University soon. |
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Sun Nov-06-11 08:38 PM
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7. well, one of those at least |
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Ball State and Marshall are a couple more public schools that fit the bill.
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Sun Nov-06-11 09:35 PM
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Miami. Another MAC school. Named for the native American tribe/river.
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Sun Nov-06-11 09:42 PM
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11. thanks good to be here |
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on what type of road can you drive both ways?
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Mon Nov-07-11 12:24 AM
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12. oh yeah ... forgot about them -- and yet one more that hasn't been mentioned |
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Mon Nov-07-11 07:02 AM
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13. Did anybody mention Clemson yet? |
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Though, technically. the town there is also called Clemson, but the university was named for Thomas Clemson, the son-in-law of two-time VP John Calhoun.
The city itself was known as Calhoun until 1943, when it was renamed Clemson.
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