so i am not american and this is somewhat new to me .. theres like a billion college games on saturday nights.. is there a “superbowl “ for college that means one is the best? or are there just a bunch of sep leagues? is there one power ranking for all ? and is like every single secondary school w a football team ranked ???
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The top division for American college football is called Division 1. There are 131 teams organized into 10 conferences. Typically, teams play 12 regular season games, of which 8 or 9 are against teams in their conference.
In order to determine who the “best” teams are, there’s a committee that votes each week to rank the top 25 teams in the country. Two teams could both have 8 wins and 0 losses, but one team would be ranked higher than the other if their wins came against better teams. At the end of the season, the top 4 teams play in a two round playoff, and the winner of that playoff is the national champion.
Aside from the championship, there are “bowl games,” which are special postseason games. A team has to win at least 6 regular season games to be eligible to play in a bowl game, and they have to be invited. The bowl games could really be their own ELI5 topic.
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