All languages combined word senses marked with topical category "College sports"
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Total 37 word senses
- BCS (Proper name) [English] Initialism of Bowl Championship Series. Replaced after the 2013 season by the College Football Playoff.
- CIS (Proper name) [English] Initialism of Canadian Interuniversity Sport, former name of U Sports.
- Clemson (Proper name) [English] Clemson University.
- Death Valley (Proper name) [English] Any foreboding location.; A nickname for Memorial Stadium, a football stadium in Clemson, South Carolina.
- Death Valley (Proper name) [English] Any foreboding location.; A nickname for Tiger Stadium, a football stadium in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
- Elite Eight (Proper name) [English] An appearance in the Elite Eight, whether in Division I or II.
- FBS (Proper name) [English] Initialism of Football Bowl Subdivision.
- FCS (Proper name) [English] Initialism of Football Championship Subdivision.
- Final Four (Noun) [English] An appearance in the Final Four.
- Frozen Four (Proper name) [English] An appearance in the Frozen Four.
- Hoya (Noun) [English] A member of the Georgetown Hoyas, the official athletics teams of Georgetown University in the United States.
- Hoya (Noun) [English] A current or former student of Georgetown University.
- March Madness (Proper name) [English] The NCAA Division I basketball championship tournaments.
- NAIA (Proper name) [English] Initialism of National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics.
- NAIA (Proper name) [English] Initialism of National Animal Interest Alliance.
- NAIA (Proper name) [English] Initialism of Ninoy Aquino International Airport.
- NCAA (Proper name) [English] Initialism of National Collegiate Athletic Association.
- Old Gray Lady (Proper name) [English] The New York Times, a newspaper in New York City, NY, United States.
- Power Five (Proper name) [English] The five college football conferences (ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and SEC) that traditionally contain the strongest programs, and whose champions are guaranteed berths in one of the six bowl games associated with the College Football Playoff.
- Rose Bowl (Proper name) [English] The annual NCAA college football championship game typically played on New Year's Day.
- SEC (Proper name) [English] Abbreviation of Southeastern Conference, a college athletics conference
- Smurf turf (Noun) [English] The distinctive blue ground of the Bronco Stadium, Idaho, United States.
- Sweet Sixteen (Proper name) [English] An appearance in the Sweet Sixteen.
- bowl (Noun) [English] A postseason football competition, a bowl game (i.e. Rose Bowl, Super Bowl)
- bowl game (Noun) [English] A postseason college football competition.
- forty minutes of hell (Noun) [English] The NCAA strategy of playing a suffocating full-court press and aggressive offense for the entirety of a game.
- holy war (Noun) [English] The rivalry between the sports teams of Brigham Young University and the University of Utah.
- one-and-done (Noun) [English] A basketball player who plays college basketball for a single year and then declares for the NBA draft.
- redshirt (Noun) [English] An athlete who spends a year not participating in official athletic activities, but does not lose his or her eligibility to participate in following years.
- redshirt (Verb) [English] To place an athlete in a status wherein the athlete will spend a year not participating in official athletic activities, but will not lose his or her eligibility to participate in following years.
- redshirt (Verb) [English] To take on a status wherein one will spend a year not participating in official athletic activities.
- redshirt (Noun) [English] An unimportant character introduced only to be killed in order to underscore the peril to the important characters; an expendable character.
- redshirt (Noun) [English] A person responsible for loading and unloading weapons, artillery, and equipment from aircraft.
- redshirt (Noun) [English] Alternative form of Red Shirt (“member of the UDD”).
- rocks for jocks (Noun) [English] An introductory course in geology that is attended by student athletes who for legal reasons must attend classes in order to continue playing their sport competitively.
- roll tide (Phrase) [English] An all-purpose term of enthusiasm in support of the University of Alabama football team.
- walk-on (Noun) [English] A student athlete who wants to try out for a college sports/athletic team without the benefit of a scholarship or having been recruited.
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