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Mack's Third Act
One of the great pleasures of writing is that it allows you to walk to the edge of a cliff. It’s a beautiful, self-satisfying view. Until you get pushed off. It remains to be seen whether I will go ass over teakettle into the abyss, but ten months ago, I wrote this piece. Here’s the money quote: I...
A Remembrance of Things Past, and a reminder that things don’t last
I wrote the following in the Jones Top Ten this week: Texas and Florida are headed to the same place for very different reasons. While I fully believe that Urban Meyer has lost his passion for the game, in Mack Brown’s case, the evidence mounts that the game has simply passed him by....
Review the Rivalry: Duke Blue Devils
Rivalry Overview: Tech leads the overall series with Duke 47-30-1. Duke has only played UNC, NC State, and Wake more times than Tech. Tech has only played Auburn and Georgie more times than Duke. Despite playing an ACC schedule for only 20+ odd years, Tech has not missed the annual Duke game...
Review: The Big Scrum - How Teddy Roosevelt Saved Football
My immediate thought when I first saw this book was that it would be a sugary glory story about how Teddy Roosevelt dashed in to save college football. In other words, full of more fluff than substance and more myth than reality. I could not have been more wrong. The Big Scrum: How Teddy Roosevelt...
Big Ten Countdown 41 - Nebraska's First Bowl Game Then 20 Years Of Losing
Taken from the Nebraska Veterans Memorial in North Platte, Nebraska honoring Nebraska veterans who fought in all wars. Nebraska's 1940 football season was a rousing success. The Cornhuskers won the Big Six, going 5-0 in conference, and finishing the regular season 8-1, the only loss...
Big Ten Countdown: 96 - Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives
In yesterday's story, we reviewed the 1997 season and controversy between Nebraska and Michigan. Today, we are going to discuss our new conferences' beginnings. The Big Ten Conference was founded in 18(96) as the Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives. It was also referred to as...
RBR Reading Room: Game of My Life
Being at a great Alabama football game gives you a sense of being part of something so much larger. At first you experience being a part of an event along with everyone else there with you and, later, a part of history. Yet as unifying as that shared experience may be for the thousands in the...
College Football History: John Cooper and Mark Richt
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A Brief History Lesson About University of Georgia Athletics and Goats
Because of the non-existence of opponents in the area, no matches were arranged by Georgia for the fall of 1891, but Mercer College agreed to organize a team to meet the University after Christmas. The game, the first intercollegiate football contest in the deep South, was set for Saturday...
Review: 50 Years of College Football
This thing is a behemoth. Over 1300 pages and a lot of it is in small type. So, what is 50 Years of College Football? Authors Bob Boyles have compiled something that has to be the most inclusive review of the last 50 years of college football available. It just as easily could have been called...
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