The Little Brown Jug that the Michigan Wolverines and Minnesota Golden Gophers Play for is College Football at Its Best

The NCAA's notion of Amateurism came from Victorian England and never really fit the athletic model of the United States.

The colleges were making lucrative financial deals with elite football players long before Name, Image, and Likeness existed.

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

By Mark Schipper In 1958, after a battle of coaches during the meetings of the NCAA Rules Committee, college football added the two-point...

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

By Mark Schipper There was a major stadium-building boom across the United States after World War I, the first and biggest college...

Red Grange of the University of Illinois, known equally well as the Wheaton Iceman and the Galloping Ghost, was turning pro.

By Mark Schipper Like the Western Black Rhinos of Africa the experts ought to declare physical tickets extinct. While there are a few of...

By Mark Schipper This is going to be personal remembrance of Bobby Bowden because that’s what you do when someone who has impacted your...

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

Old Pitt Stadium opened in 1925, head-coach Jock Sutherland's second season on the job. Photo courtesy of Pitt Athletics. More than one...

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...

By Mark Schipper Kyle Umlang has a newly awarded master’s degree in applied data science and, fittingly, a new book chock full of...

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...