English word senses marked with topical category "College sports"

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Total 41 word senses

• BCS (Proper name) Initialism of best-case scenario.
• BCS (Proper name) Initialism of Bowl Championship Series. Replaced after the 2013 season by the College Football Playoff.
• BCS (Proper name) Initialism of British Computer Society.
• BCS (Proper name) Initialism of Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian treated commonly (Serbo-Croatian)
• BCS (Proper name) Abbreviation of Baja California Sur, a state of Mexico.
• CIS (Proper name) Initialism of Canadian Interuniversity Sport, former name of U Sports.
• Clemson (Proper name) Clemson University.
• Death Valley (Proper name) Any foreboding location.; A nickname for Tiger Stadium, a football stadium in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
• Elite Eight (Proper name) An appearance in the Elite Eight, whether in Division I or II.
• FBS (Noun) Initialism of fetal blood sampling.
• FBS (Noun) Initialism of fasting blood sugar.
• FBS (Proper name) Initialism of Football Bowl Subdivision.
• FCS (Proper name) Initialism of Football Championship Subdivision.
• Final Four (Noun) An appearance in the Final Four.
• Flutie effect (Noun) The increase in fame and applications for an American university caused by a successful sports team.
• Frozen Four (Proper name) An appearance in the Frozen Four.
• Hoya (Noun) A member of the Georgetown Hoyas, the official athletics teams of Georgetown University in the United States.
• Hoya (Noun) A current or former student of Georgetown University.
• March Madness (Proper name) The NCAA Division I basketball championship tournaments.
• NAIA (Proper name) Initialism of Ninoy Aquino International Airport.
• NCAA (Proper name) Initialism of National Collegiate Athletic Association.
• Old Gray Lady (Proper name) The New York Times, a newspaper in New York City, NY, United States.
• Old Gray Lady (Proper name) Legion Field, an outdoor stadium in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.
• Power Five (Proper name) 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) The annual NCAA college football championship game typically played on New Year's Day.
• SEC (Proper name) Abbreviation of Southeastern Conference, a college athletics conference
• Smurf turf (Noun) The distinctive blue ground of the Bronco Stadium, Idaho, United States.
• Sweet Sixteen (Proper name) An appearance in the Sweet Sixteen.
• bowl (Noun) A postseason football competition, a bowl game (i.e. Rose Bowl, Super Bowl)
• bowl game (Noun) A postseason college football competition.
• forty minutes of hell (Noun) The NCAA strategy of playing a suffocating full-court press and aggressive offense for the entirety of a game.
• holy war (Noun) The rivalry between the sports teams of Brigham Young University and the University of Utah.
• one-and-done (Noun) A basketball player who plays college basketball for a single year and then declares for the NBA draft.
• redshirt (Noun) A supporter of the Italian nationalist leader Giuseppe Garibaldi, especially a member of his thousand-man army which conquered Sicily.
• redshirt (Noun) A college 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 (Noun) A person responsible for loading and unloading weapons, artillery, and equipment from aircraft.
• redshirt (Verb) 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) To take on a status wherein one will spend a year not participating in official athletic activities.
• rocks for jocks (Noun) 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) An all-purpose term of enthusiasm in support of the University of Alabama football team.
• walk-on (Noun) A student athlete who wants to try out for a college sports or athletic team without the benefit of a scholarship or having been recruited.

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