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College Football Playoff App Launches With Augmented Reality Features

A new augmented reality experience will bring to life certain aspects of Monday’s College Football Playoff National Championship game from viewers’ smartphones. Through the CFP app, users will be able to scan six logos with their phone cameras that will trigger a number of interactive augmented reality experiences, videos and photos about the venue and […]

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Georgia Football Used MuscleSound In SEC Championship Season

SEC champion and College Football Playoff entrant Georgia has been using MuscleSound for assessments of players’ game readiness this season. MuscleSound is a Colorado-based company that uses ultrasound imagery to measure glycogen and determine muscle fuel by sending photos to its cloud for computation with its proprietary algorithms. Low readings can be a precursor to […]

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Stanford Using Facebook Watch To Promote Bryce Love For Heisman

Stanford has sent many players to New York for the Heisman Trophy ceremony. In the last eight years, they’ve all come up just short. There was Toby Gerhart in 2009, Andrew Luck in 2010 and 2011, and Christian McCaffrey in 2015, all three finished second in the voting. Gerhart and McCaffrey finished behind Alabama running […]

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Surprise For Wyoming Cheerleader Shows Power Of Social Video’s Community, Connectivity

During the Stadium network’s Facebook Live broadcast of a Wyoming-Texas State football game on Sept. 30, a hashtag started trending in the comments section: #InterviewCheerleaderSidney. Stadium’s social producer, Greg Shellow, noted its popularity and, though its origin was not immediately obvious, texted the tip to sideline reporter Camryn Irwin, who went to investigate. She approached […]

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New Wearable Tech QBit Seeks To Train Quarterback’s Eyes

Today’s football is the domain of the short-passing game, whether it’s packaged as the West Coast offense, the spread attack or the run-pass option. “The only way that you can successfully the modern style of offense is if the quarterback is looking at the right defender because there is a very specific read and it […]

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