On the first Saturday of December, Nick Saban is usually coaching Alabama in the SEC championship game. His teams have competed in seven of the past 11 and won six, and the event has been a ticket to the College Football Playoff in each of its first five years. But on Dec. 2, 2017, Saban […]
We know college football’s biggest programs bring in fans from all over the country, but all schools like to argue about which one has the best fan base, or the biggest fan base, or the most loyal fan base. Here, using data from VividSeats — a Chicago-based ticket marketplace — is a sampling of where […]
With the calendar turned to October, there’s no getting around it: Jalen Hurts is having a historic year in his last season of college football. He packed more into his first three years than most do in a career — two SEC titles and three national championship berths, including one in which he watched a […]
A handful of weeks into the 2019 season, we still don’t know much about how the College Football Playoff race will eventually play out. Twenty-four major-conference teams (so, the Power Five plus Notre Dame — more on the Irish later) are currently undefeated, and 29 more have only one loss. Although we may be headed […]
p1:College fight songs are Saturday staples, memorized in freshman orientation and blasted by marching bands at every game. The best ones are shouted from the rooftops and during Heisman Trophy presentations; the worst barely register with alumni. p2:We gathered the fight songs of 65 schools — all those in the Power Five conferences (the ACC, […]