The NCAA - National Collegiate Athletic Association is the governing body of a truly popular sport, college football. With millions of avid fans closely following everything that happens to the players, the teams and their schools, football news is a constant throughout the year , even though the college football season is relatively short. It starts in September and ends in December, not counting bowl games which are still being played in early January.There is no doubt about it , college football is a big time sport and news about it is important to lots of people.

Much has and is happening in and around college football , and all of it has been reported. For example:A recent news release provided the names of the colleges and universities that were able to land the top recruits from high schools all across America. Not surprisingly, the top recruiting classes were all achieved by big time college football powers. Heres a list of the top ten: (1) LSU Louisiana State University; (2) Ohio State; (3) USC University of Southern California; (4) Texas; (5) Alabama; (6) North Carolina; (7) South Carolina; (8) Georgia; (9) Florida; and (10) Michigan. As is almost always the case, the best graduating high school seniors are all going to schools representing Major Conferences like the Big 10 , the PAC 10 , the ACC , and a few others. Less prominent conferences, and there are many, are left to recruit the remaining good players coming out of high school.

Want more news? Consider that in these tough economic times, the vast majority of colleges and universities have announced that they will not make any cuts in their football programs. While expensive to run, these programs generate significant amounts of revenue for the schools running them.More off-season news involves the publication of the schedule for Bowl Games which will be played after the regular season ends. Amazingly, there will be 34 bowl games played , beginning on or around December 19 and ending, with the BCS Bowl College Championship Game, on or around January 7.And if that were not enough new information for fans of college football, it has also been reported, on TV and in the national press, that as many as 22 Head Coaching jobs have changed hands since the last season ended.

Thats right, 22 Head Coaches have either been fired or quit their positions , and twenty-two new men have been hired to replace them.That may sound like extensive turnover, but in a sport where hundreds of colleges and universities support football programs for their male students its really isnt excessive turnover. Of course, the new season is still several months off in the future, so its entirely possible that more coaching changes will occur. Its certainly possible, and even likely, that college football will continue to generate many more big news stories in the months ahead.