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...
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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 12, 2020
Greed Comes for College Football: Knight Commission Recommends FBS Leave the N.C.A.A.
Sometime while you're looking out over the strip-mining operations that blight the otherwise handsome landscape of college football,...
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