By Mark Schipper Steve Spurrier played three brilliant seasons at the University of Florida in the middle 1960s, quarterbacking the...

By Mark Schipper College football is such a permanent fixture in American culture the legendary writer Ernest Hemingway found multiple...

By Mark Schipper Within the next four years, whenever the universities of Texas and Oklahoma are allowed to fly from the Big 12 and...

By Mark Schipper George Kliavkoff, a major operator in digital-television and a sports-entertainment executive at MGM Resorts...

By Mark Schipper In the misty twilight that spread quickly after a blazing sun had set behind a shoulder of mountain near the end of the...

By Mark Schipper The timing on Jon Finkel’s new book, 1996: A Biography—Reliving the Legend-Packed, Dynasty-Stacked, Most Iconic Sports...

The infamous Fifth Down Game between Colorado and Missouri is part of college football's living history, and helped name this website.

By Mark Schipper The Eyes of Texas, a cultural pillar at the Lone Star State's flagship university, and a song with tenuous linkages to...

By Mark Schipper Alone in a hotel a continent away from his estranged wife and three children, tortured by the belief he wore a scarlet...

By Mark Schipper THEY ALWAYS MADE GOOD The young head coach Hayden Fry, and his even younger player, Jerry LeVias, had trust in their...

By Mark Schipper “Forget it, it’s all changed, they took it away from me,” Paul Bear Bryant said, referring to the committee convened to...

By Mark Schipper There’s no shattered visage on the ground next to Walter Eckersall’s grave marker at Oak Woods cemetery, but the lone...

By Mark Schipper A strange sort of desolation has settled over the legendary Palmer House in the heart of Chicago’s downtown Loop, the...

By Mark Schipper THE CIVIL WAR Saturday melees between fans of the Oregon and Oregon State football teams have escalated into mini riots...

By Mark Schipper College athletics under the NCAA’s rule have become a Byzantine mess, which the current push to grant student-athletes...

Some time while you're looking out over the television strip-mining operations that blight the otherwise handsome landscape of college...

Georgia Tech beat Cumberland College 222-0, but there's more to the story than the mind-bending final score.

Auburn University is honoring their old football coach Pat Dye in simple fashion, and that's a beautiful thing.

By Mark Schipper If he is looking down from football Valhalla, former North Texas head coach Hayden Fry will see the program he led in...