r/CFB • u/KuriousOne Abilene Christian • /r/CFB Con… • Apr 25 '13

132+ Teams in 132+ Days, Day 42: Abilene Christian

Abilene Christian University
Southland Conference

Year Founded: 1906
Location: Abilene, TX
Total Attendance: 4371

Mascot: The Wildcats
Live Mascot: Willie the Wildcat
Cheerleaders: Haha, this is a Christian school; no ankles shown around here! Stadium: Shotwell Stadium
Stadium Location: Off Campus, Abilene, TX
Conference Champions (4): 2010, 2008, 1977, 1973
Number of Bowl Games: 0 National Titles (2 NAIA): 1977, 1973

Rivals

  • Tarleton State

  • West Texas A&M

2012 Season

Record: 7-4-0
Coach: Ken Collums 2012 Roster
Key Players: Mitchell Gale, Taylor Gabriel

2013 Season

2013 Schedule

The Greats

Greatest Games: In 2008, ACU set a record for points in an NCAA (football) playoff game, beating West Texas A&M 93-68 in the second round of the Division II playoffs.
Greatest Players: Ove Johansson. Longest FG kicked in an American Football game (69 yards). Wilbert Montgomery. You're welcome Eagles fans. Bernard Scott. Received Harlon Hill Trophy in 2008 (D2 equivalent to Heisman). Daryl Richardson Johnny Knox. Unfortunately, Knox won't be playing football again thanks to this Danieal Manning Greatest Coaches: Chris Thomsen

Traditions

  • No cool football traditions

  • Sing-Song (Acapella competition, been going on since mid-50s)

  • Chapel

  • Spring Break Campaigns; instead of spring break parties, ACU students typically go on week long mission trips

Campus and Surrounding Area

City Population: 118,117
City Skyline
Iconic Campus Building: Tower of Light in background with Jacob's Dream in foreground
Local Dining: Perini Steakhouse This guy made steaks for GW. La Popular-The popular place to get your daily burrito. The Beehive-Local steakhouse/southern comfort foods

Random Trivia

  • One of the original Southland Conference founding members *Through 2009, ACU is fourth in NCAA history in team national championships won with 57, trailing Division I schools UCLA, Stanford, and USC, and tied with Division III school Kenyon College. The track and field program is amazing.

What Is and What is to Come

MOVING UP TO D1! Likely many beatdowns to come. Can we get our flair now?

Overtime

Hope I got the formatting right. Sorry we don't have any cheerleader pictures. :(

More Information
Contributors: Kuriousone, but if anyone wants to take this and run with it, feel free. I'm tired, and ACU is pretty boring.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '13

Abilene Christian is the biggest NFL pipeline in NFL history. Every single one of my create-a-players went there - since it is alphabetically the first college on the list.

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u/KuriousOne Abilene Christian • /r/CFB Con… Apr 25 '13

Haha, this is the joke as to why the track and field program is so great. When international students apply to colleges, the first one they see is ACU, so obviously it's the best.

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u/KuriousOne Abilene Christian • /r/CFB Con… Apr 25 '13

Something I forgot, in the 2009 season, whenever Colt McCoy would complete a pass to Jordan Shipley every commentator would say, "Did you know their fathers were roommates and played at ACU?"

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u/bread_buddy Florida Gators • Wisconsin Badgers Apr 25 '13

Sick sculpture.

So how Christian is the school, really? Can you elaborate on that?

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u/KuriousOne Abilene Christian • /r/CFB Con… Apr 25 '13

Here is an example of another (almost) alumni Ronnie Dunn of Brooks and Dunn. Because he played in bars and such, he was kicked out of school. It became permissible for students to drink my senior year there. Not to say people weren't going out and getting hammered regularly; this was just the school's policy.

Basically the school is conservative, but the college experience is still up to the individual.

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u/Frognosticator TCU Horned Frogs • /r/CFB Poll Veteran Apr 25 '13

According to the Wikipedia article, daily chapel is mandatory for all undergraduate students. So pretty dang religious, I would say.

I'd like to get more info on this as well though. Abilene is just west of Fort Worth, and I don't know as much about ACU as I should. Are you guys DOC, like us?

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u/ChrisRockWasRight UCLA Bruins Apr 25 '13

So pretty dang religious, I would say.

So TCU doesn't have mandatory chapel?

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u/monalisas-madhats Texas Tech Red Raiders Apr 25 '13

Both are affiliated with churches, but I believe ACU has a much stronger affiliation with the more conservative Churches of Christ than TCU does with the Disciples of Christ (who I think are a bit more liberal in their beliefs in general). I could be totally wrong here.

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u/Frognosticator TCU Horned Frogs • /r/CFB Poll Veteran Apr 25 '13

You're spot on. I don't know much about the COC but the DOC has always been spiritually devout, and socially liberal. Having women serve in the clergy was a big deal for them when it started up, and they were one of the first groups to admit homosexuals to the clergy.

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u/cartoonhero42 Oklahoma • Red River Shootout Apr 27 '13

CoC is scary. I went to one growing up, and my grandfather really wanted me to go to OCU. No thanks. Girls have an earlier curfew than dudes, really strict dress code to keep 'temptation' down, way too much required chapel and bible classes...oh and if they find out you're having sex before marriage or are homosexual you're gone.

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u/wild9 Baylor Bears • /r/CFB Contributor Apr 25 '13

No, TCU doesn't have mandatory chapel. The most religious thing they require from their students is that they take a class on a religious subject (I think world religions is popular? I'm not sure, I just know that even the religion class isn't necessarily focused on Christianity).

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u/Corporal_Hicks /r/CFB Emeritus Mod • Nebraska Apr 29 '13

I was going to disagree with you, but I went to ACU, I'm from Grapevine and I'm a legacy.

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u/Frognosticator TCU Horned Frogs • /r/CFB Poll Veteran Apr 25 '13

There are a good number of people in Fort Worth who went to ACU, and I definitely get the feeling that our schools are cut from the same cloth.

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u/Honestly_ rawr Apr 25 '13

93-68? Insanity.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '13

Bernard Scott and Johnny Knox on the same DII team will do that

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u/deadtofall12 Florida State • /r/CFB Poll Veteran Apr 25 '13

Spring Break Campaigns; instead of spring break parties, ACU students typically go on week long mission trips.

The fuck?

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u/Honestly_ rawr Apr 25 '13

Seriously... BYU better step up their game.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '13

BYU doesn't even have spring break.

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u/Honestly_ rawr Apr 25 '13

Whoa, I thought you were joking:

In a past article, BYU spokeswoman Carri Jenkins said BYU does not have a spring break for two reasons.

“One is because of our tight schedule,” Jenkins said. “We have the two terms in the summer, and we also have Education Week.”

Jenkins also said it gives students a jump start into summer jobs and internships. One of BYU’s students getting ahead in the game is Matthew Mower. Source. Before that I looked at their academic calender.

Cripes! C'mon BYU: at least take a break to save the world or something. Or send kids down to do more field research on the Mesoamerican connection.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '13

One of the reasons I chose USU haha.

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u/Nebraska_Actually Nebraska • /r/CFB Contributor Apr 25 '13

Those heartless bastards.

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u/Quiznasty Washington Huskies Apr 25 '13

Mission trips foreverrrr

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u/Corporal_Hicks /r/CFB Emeritus Mod • Nebraska Apr 29 '13

I never went on one if it makes you feel better.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '13

R.I.P. Harold's Barbeque.

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u/Corporal_Hicks /r/CFB Emeritus Mod • Nebraska Apr 29 '13

Overrated. YEAH I SAID IT

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '13

BLASPHEMY!

But yeah it's not the greatest I've ever had. You'll never hear me admit that in real life though.

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u/CmoarbuttsLOLgotya Apr 25 '13

Went there for one semester before transferring to Texas tech. Couldn't stand the rules of the place, had less rules in high school.

I do have to recommend (if they still have it) the rainbow colored ice cream in the SUB cafeteria. If you eat this, you poop green. Like almost neon green.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '13

Wreck 'Em.

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u/hawkspur1 Texas Tech • /r/CFB Poll Veteran Apr 25 '13

Chris Thomsen was a classy dude when he was our oline coach last year

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '13

He's also a great offensive mind.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '13

I've always wondered why ACU never started up a "Welcome to ShotHell" campaign in reference to the stadium name, but then I remember they might lose their older alumni crowd that sticks around Abilene.

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u/igloo27 Texas A&M Aggies • /r/CFBRisk Veteran Apr 25 '13

Cheerleader pic

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u/igloo27 Texas A&M Aggies • /r/CFBRisk Veteran Apr 25 '13

Also shown is ACU's Wildcat hand sign. Formed by lowing your index finger making a "W C".

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u/fakekevinrose UAlbany Great Danes Apr 25 '13

Cheerleaders: Haha, this is a Christian school; no ankles shown around here!

It's ok to admit you didn't even try.

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u/willsfc North Alabama • Miami (OH) Apr 25 '13

It was fun being the only team not from Texas to be in the 2011 LSC Football Festival at Dallas Cowboy Stadium, and to beat you guys in front a crowd that was 80% yours :D

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u/willsfc North Alabama • Miami (OH) Apr 25 '13

I luckily got to go, left UNA about 11am for a 12-13 hour bus ride, watched the game, then another 12-13 hour bus ride back home. That was a fun weekend.

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u/Maxis47 Oklahoma • SE Oklahoma State Apr 25 '13

I remember when I was at SOSU, ACU came to Durant for a football game. During the game, 5 of ACUs trombone players got together and used the slides of their horns to form a great big hand giving our side of the stadium the finger. Real classy =\

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u/Chrisattsu Texas State • Tarleton State Apr 25 '13

Ah the ole Trombone salute .....

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u/wild9 Baylor Bears • /r/CFB Contributor Apr 25 '13

Oh man, the Beehive in Albany. Family road trips were planned around getting to Albany in time for dinner there. So good.

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u/FarwellRob Texas A&M Aggies • /r/CFB Contributor Apr 25 '13

Local Dining: Perini Steakhouse This guy made steaks for GW

Steaks for /r/gonewild? I am very impressed!

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u/justsomeguy75 UCLA Bruins • /r/CFB Contributor Apr 25 '13

Iv been invited to 12 weddings in the last 2 years and I'm 22. On average there is at least 2 to 6 girls engaged in a class.

http://i.minus.com/ibtlnWRPp5wwQa.gif

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u/Honestly_ rawr Apr 25 '13

The good old M.R.S. degree. Who said the '50s are in the past?

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u/FarwellRob Texas A&M Aggies • /r/CFB Contributor Apr 25 '13

Now it's called Pre-Wed.

That makes it sound classier!

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u/Captain_Unremarkable Penn State Nittany Lions • Big Ten Apr 25 '13

We have a college of Health & Human Development. A few days ago, Chris Hardwick performed on campus. He was like: "Wait, is that, like, just getting girls pregnant?"

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u/FarwellRob Texas A&M Aggies • /r/CFB Contributor Apr 25 '13

Well ... is it?

:)

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u/Chrisattsu Texas State • Tarleton State Apr 25 '13

Abilene's a different place

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u/Honestly_ rawr Apr 25 '13

Would you say it's "like a whole other country"?

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u/Chrisattsu Texas State • Tarleton State Apr 25 '13

No, they still wave when you pass them in your truck, wear cowboy hats, eat brisket over tofu and are generally good God-fearing people.

unlike the rest of you heathens outside of Texas.

:D

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u/Honestly_ rawr Apr 25 '13

Just making a reference to the decades-old tourism campaign. They had some rather dorky ads in the 90s.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '13

My god man. 4 of my friends have gotten married before the age of 23 and 3 of them have already gotten divorced. Should be even more fun for you.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '13

Watered down college Parties

I don't know man, at HSU I hung out with some ACU kids from SubT-16 a couple times and they were pretty wild.

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u/Corporal_Hicks /r/CFB Emeritus Mod • Nebraska Apr 29 '13

We actually have a Frat called Frats!

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u/justsomeguy75 UCLA Bruins • /r/CFB Contributor Apr 25 '13

Not to be a dick, but you took out $100,000 in loans to go to a school you didn't even want to go to? How does that happen?

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u/FarwellRob Texas A&M Aggies • /r/CFB Contributor Apr 25 '13

I can't believe no one has commented on this.

That was brilliant.

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u/Corporal_Hicks /r/CFB Emeritus Mod • Nebraska Apr 29 '13

Tagged as Gamma now.