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149 free College Football trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
50 free college football trivia questions with answers. You think you know college football? Our 149-question quiz covers legendary coaches, iconic rivalries, championship moments, and memorable players throughout NCAA history. Discover how well you really understand the game that defines American college sports.
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Q 01Through 2025, who is the only player to have won the Heisman Trophy twice?
Archie Griffin
Archie Griffin fumbled on his only carry in his first Ohio State game, ran for a school-record 239 yards in his second, and went on to win the Heisman in both 1974 and 1975.
Q 02The AP poll, which crowned Alabama a record 12 times through 2020, is decided by the votes of whom?
Sportswriters and broadcasters
Sportswriters and broadcasters vote in the AP poll, which in 1964 still closed before the bowls: Alabama kept that year's title despite losing the Orange Bowl to Texas.
Q 03What do Ohio State and Michigan call their annual end-of-season meeting?
The Game
The Game's strangest edition was the 1950 'Snow Bowl': in a blizzard the teams punted 45 times, and Michigan won 9-3 without making a first down or completing a pass.
Q 04Which postseason game, 'The Granddaddy of Them All', is traditionally played on New Year's Day in Pasadena?
Rose Bowl
The Rose Bowl was first played in 1902, and Michigan's rout of Stanford was so lopsided that the organizers ran chariot races and other events instead of football until 1916.
Q 05Big Al, the costumed mascot who roams the sideline for Alabama's Crimson Tide, is what animal?
Elephant
An elephant is an odd fit for a team called the Tide, but the pachyderm link dates to a 1930 sportswriter describing Alabama's huge linemen as 'red elephants' thundering onto the field.
Q 06Which coach's seven claimed national titles are the most in college football history?
Nick Saban
Nick Saban won his first title at LSU in 2003, left for the NFL's Miami Dolphins and went 15-17 in two seasons, then returned to college and won six more with the Crimson Tide.
Q 07Which team did Ohio State beat 42–20 in the first College Football Playoff title game, in January 2015?
Oregon
Oregon and Heisman winner Marcus Mariota lost to a Buckeye side led by Cardale Jones, a third-string quarterback who had made his first college start only weeks earlier.
Q 08Which university's 'Touchdown Jesus', a library mural of Christ with arms raised, looms over one end of its football stadium?
Notre Dame
Notre Dame's 'Word of Life' mural on Hesburgh Library shows Christ with arms raised like a referee signalling a score; a later stadium expansion partly blocked the view from the field.
Q 09What prize goes to each season's winner of the three-way series among Army, Navy and Air Force?
Commander-in-Chief's Trophy
The Commander-in-Chief's Trophy has been contested since 1972 among Army, Navy and Air Force; when the three-way series ends in a tie, the previous winner keeps the trophy.
Q 10Keith Jackson popularized "The Big House" as the nickname of which college football venue?
Michigan Stadium
Michigan Stadium's official capacity, now 107,601, has ended in a 1 since 1956; the extra seat is said to be reserved for former athletic director Fritz Crisler.
Q 11Which SEC rivalry game is known as the 'Iron Bowl'?
Alabama vs. Auburn
Alabama vs. Auburn is the Iron Bowl, named for Birmingham, the South's iron and steel capital, where Legion Field hosted the game for decades with the tickets split evenly between the schools.
Q 12What does Clemson call its pregame entrance after players rub Howard's Rock?
Running Down the Hill
Running Down the Hill follows a rub of Howard's Rock, a stone from Death Valley, California, that coach Frank Howard used as an office doorstop until it was put on show at the stadium in 1966.
Q 13Which coach has the most all-time wins in NCAA Division I FBS history?
Joe Paterno
Q 21Which coach led Oklahoma to 47 straight wins from 1953 to 1957, still the major-college record through 2025?
Bud Wilkinson
Bud Wilkinson's team won 47 in a row before Notre Dame, the last side to beat it back in the 1953 opener, ended the run 7-0 in Norman in November 1957.
Q 22Which Texas A&M quarterback became the first freshman ever to win the Heisman Trophy, in 2012?
Johnny Manziel
Johnny Manziel, 'Johnny Football', made his case as a redshirt freshman by leading Texas A&M to a 29-24 upset of top-ranked Alabama in Tuscaloosa in November 2012.
Q 23What nickname did LSU's 1988 win over Auburn earn after the crowd's roar registered on a nearby seismograph?
The Earthquake Game
Joe Paterno won 409 games at Penn State from 1966 to 2011; the NCAA vacated 111 of them in 2012, then restored them in a 2015 settlement, which returned the record to him.
Q 14What is the name of the live Longhorn steer that has served as the University of Texas mascot since 1916?
Bevo
Bevo's name is often traced to Texas A&M pranksters who branded the first steer '13-0', but the tale is a myth: he had been called Bevo for months before the branding happened.
Q 15Which school's fight song includes the lyric 'Hail to the Victors'?
Michigan
Michigan student Louis Elbel wrote 'The Victors' on the train home in 1898, after a 12-11 road win capped an unbeaten season.
Q 16Which player won the 2020 Heisman Trophy while playing for Alabama?
DeVonta Smith
DeVonta Smith, the first receiver to win since Desmond Howard in 1991, then caught 12 passes for 215 yards and three touchdowns in the first half of the title game before a finger injury ended his night.
Q 17Which SEC school's fans 'Call the Hogs' with a 'Woo Pig Sooie' chant before kickoff?
Arkansas
Arkansas teams were the Cardinals until coach Hugo Bezdek said in 1909 that his players had fought 'like a wild band of razorback hogs'; the hog call is said to date from the 1920s.
Q 18USC, UCLA, Oregon and Washington left the Pac-12 in 2024 to join which 18-team conference?
Big Ten
Big Ten: the moves, led by USC and UCLA, broke up the Pac-12, which played the next two seasons with Oregon State and Washington State as its only full members.
Q 19Which trophy goes to the winner of the annual USC-UCLA football game?
Victory Bell
The Victory Bell, a 295-pound locomotive bell given to UCLA in 1939, was carried off by USC students in 1941 and kept hidden until the schools agreed in 1942 to play for it.
Q 20Which university has played its home football games at the Rose Bowl stadium since 1982?
UCLA
UCLA left the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, which it had shared with USC, when the NFL's Raiders moved in for 1982; its adopted home stadium is 26 miles from campus.
The Earthquake Game: Tommy Hodson's late touchdown pass to Eddie Fuller beat Auburn 7-6 on October 8, 1988, and the crowd's roar registered on a seismograph in LSU's geoscience building.
Q 24Which coach led Alabama from 1958 to 1982 and earned his nickname by agreeing to wrestle a captive bear at 13?
Paul Bryant
Paul 'Bear' Bryant retired in 1982 with a then-record 323 wins; asked what he would do without coaching, he said he would 'probably croak in a week', and he died four weeks after his last game.
Q 25Which major bowl game has made New Orleans its home since its first playing in 1935?
Sugar Bowl
The Sugar Bowl has left New Orleans only once: after Hurricane Katrina damaged the Superdome, the January 2006 game was played in Atlanta's Georgia Dome.
Q 26What is a 'Hail Mary' in football?
A long, desperate end-zone heave
A Hail Mary is a long, desperate end-zone heave. The term went mainstream after Roger Staubach's 1975 playoff winner to Drew Pearson; Doug Flutie's 1984 miracle for Boston College cemented it in the college game.
Q 27Which school is known for its 'Midnight Yell Practice' tradition?
Texas A&M
Texas A&M fans, 20,000 or more of them, gather the night before a game to rehearse yells; when the stadium lights are switched off, Aggies are supposed to kiss their dates.
Q 28Which running back set the NCAA single-season rushing record with 2,628 yards in 1988?
Barry Sanders
Barry Sanders spent two seasons as Thurman Thomas's backup at Oklahoma State before running for 2,628 yards in 11 games in 1988; he accepted the Heisman by satellite from Tokyo.
Q 29Which Big Ten school paints its visitors' locker room entirely pink, a tradition begun by Hayden Fry?
Iowa
Iowa: Fry, a psychology major, reasoned that pink would calm visiting players and that some would bristle at a 'sissy color'; everything from lockers to urinals at Kinnick Stadium got the treatment.
Q 30What is the name of the trophy awarded to the winner of the Florida-Georgia game?
The Okefenokee Oar
The Okefenokee Oar, a 10-foot oar carved from a cypress that grew in the swamp straddling the Georgia-Florida line, was introduced by the two schools' student governments in 2009.