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Mark Schipper
May 13, 2022
Georgia Tech's Hall of Fame Coach Bobby Dodd sent the Funniest Telegram in College Football History
By Mark Schipper In 1958, after a battle of coaches during the meetings of the NCAA Rules Committee, college football added the two-point...


Mark Schipper
Jul 30, 2021
Fear Came for College Football: NCAA's TV Takeover Created Conditions for Conference Re-Alignment
By Mark Schipper Within the next four years, whenever the universities of Texas and Oklahoma are allowed to fly from the Big 12 and...

Mark Schipper
May 4, 2021
Infamous Fifth Down Game that Inspired 5th Down College Football Website was a Brouhaha for the Ages
The infamous Fifth Down Game between Colorado and Missouri is part of college football's living history, and helped name this website.

Mark Schipper
Jan 17, 2021
NCAA Delays Vote on New Compensation and Transfer Rules, but Revolution Remains a Real Threat
By Mark Schipper College athletics under the NCAA’s rule have become a Byzantine mess, which the current push to grant student-athletes...

Mark Schipper
Dec 11, 2020
Greed Comes for College Football: Knight Commission Recommends FBS Leave the N.C.A.A.
Some time while you're looking out over the television strip-mining operations that blight the otherwise handsome landscape of college...
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