Answers about the college game, its schools and traditions.
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College player coverage. Explore dated rosters and player details for 266 FBS and FCS programs. Every saved roster entry has a dated summary. Selected profiles include additional official-source background. Coverage varies by school; coaching backgrounds, program history and FAQs are still being expanded. Please check source dates and confirm changes with the schools. Division II, Division III and NAIA directories are not yet included.
Alabama Athletics traces the elephant association to Everett Strupper's reporting about the 1930 team. The university describes Big Al as the costumed expression of that elephant identity. This collection keeps those origins distinct and does not resolve conflicting Big Al debut dates by inference. The cited athletics and university pages provide the school's accounts of the tradition.
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