| NCAA football season begins two or three weeks earlier than its professional counterpart, the NFL. In the past years, the regular season is usually ushered by the Eddie Robinson Classic , Pigskin Classic, and the recent Kickoff Classic. However in 2003, recent rule changes in the NCAA Football have elimanated these games. The regular season continues to early December and ends at the annual Army-Navy Game and other several conference championship games at the same time.
The postseason are marked of a series of bowl games that pits top college teams against each other. These kind of games generally match two teams of similar standings from different conferences of the same division, although sometimes lower ranked teams from big conferences and top ranked teams from smaller conferences.
The season concludes with series of all-star bowl games in January. These include the East-West Shrine Game, the Gridiron Classic, the Hula Bowl, the Senior Bowl, and the newly-established Texas vs. The Nation Game. However, the Gridiron Classic was recently declared canceled for 2006 because of lack of sponsorship.
The length of the season has gradually increased over the course of the game's history. In spring 2005, the NCAA ruled that teams could schedule twelve regular-season games (up from eleven) beginning in the 2006 season.
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