Rivals.com is a network of website

Website

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s that focus mainly on college football

College football

College football refers to American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, colleges, and military academies, or Canadian football played by teams of student athletes fielded by Canadian universities...

 and basketball

College basketball

College basketball most often refers to the USA basketball competitive governance structure established by the National Collegiate Athletic Association . Basketball in the NCAA is divided into three divisions: Division I, Division II and Division III....

 recruiting. The network was started in 1996 and currently employs more than 300 personnel.

Schools

The individual collegiate sites can be found here. Schools included at Rivals are all schools from the:

• ACC
  Atlantic Coast Conference
  The Atlantic Coast Conference is a collegiate athletic league in the United States. Founded in 1953 in Greensboro, North Carolina, the ACC sanctions competition in twenty-five sports in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association for its twelve member universities...
  
  
• Big East
  Big East Conference
  The Big East Conference is a collegiate athletics conference consisting of sixteen universities in the eastern half of the United States. The conference's 17 members participate in 24 NCAA sports...
  
  
• Big Ten
  Big Ten Conference
  The Big Ten Conference is the United States' oldest Division I college athletic conference. Its twelve member institutions are located primarily in the Midwestern United States, stretching from Nebraska in the west to Pennsylvania in the east...
  
  
• Big 12
  Big 12 Conference
  The Big 12 Conference is a college athletic conference of ten schools located in the Central United States, with its headquarters located in Las Colinas, a community in the Dallas, Texas suburb of Irving...
  
  
• Pac 12
• Conference USA
  Conference USA
  Conference USA, officially abbreviated C-USA, is a college athletic conference whose member institutions are located within the Southern United States. The conference participates in the NCAA's Division I in all sports...
  
  
• SEC
  Southeastern Conference
  The Southeastern Conference is an American college athletic conference that operates in the southeastern part of the United States. It is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama...
  
  
• MWC

Conferences that have sites for their schools, but not all of them include:

• 6 from the Atlantic 10
• 8 from the Mountain West
• 5 from the Sun Belt
  Sun Belt Conference
  The Sun Belt Conference is a college athletic conference that has been affiliated with the NCAA's Division I since 1976. Its football teams participate in the Division I Football Bowl Subdivision , the higher of two levels of Division I football competition . The Sun Belt has member institutions...
  
  
• 5 from the WAC
  Western Athletic Conference
  The Western Athletic Conference is an American collegiate athletic conference, which was formed on July 27, 1962, making it the sixth oldest of the 11 college athletic conferences currently participating in the NCAA's Division I FBS...
  
  
• 1 from the Missouri Valley Conference
  Missouri Valley Conference
  The Missouri Valley Conference is a college athletic conference whose members are located in the midwestern United States...
  
  
• 6 Independents

Acquisition by Yahoo

On June 20, 2007, Yahoo!

Yahoo!

Yahoo! Inc. is an American multinational internet corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, United States. The company is perhaps best known for its web portal, search engine , Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, advertising, online mapping ,...

agreed to acquire Rivals.com. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but several sources reported Yahoo! paid around $100 million.

External links

• Rivals.com Official site
• Yahoo! acquisition of Rivals.com
• The Football National Board- http://collegefootball.rivals.com/forum.asp?sid=1144&fid=2150&style=2&Reset=