Grumbling about college football’s refusal to go to a tournament format to decide its champion? Be thankful we even have college football – Teddy Roosevelt threatened to end the sport in 1906 because it was killing people.

With T.R. in mind, here are the Top 10 changes that have made college sports what they are today:

The NCAA: Roosevelt got the presidents of Harvard, Yale and Princeton together, giving birth to the Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States, forerunner to the NCAA.

Title IX: There are more women athletes and administrators than ever before.

The BCS: Ten years of tweaks haven’t stemmed the complaints.

March Madness: A major hit since its 1939 debut.

The Death Penalty: The 1951 point-shaving scandal led to the first NCAA rules committee and the cancellation of Kentucky’s 1952-53 basketball season.

The championship: The NCAA’s first national title went to Illinois in 1921, for track and field.

The forward pass: Instituted with the first set of IAAUS football rules in 1906.

Overtime football: This 1996 rule change helped LSU win the 2008 title.

Divisions: D-I, D-II and D-III were created in 1973.

The first game: The inaugural Harvard-Yale Regatta in 1852 (won by Harvard).