A feel-good story doesn’t always conclude on a high note. In the shadow of Los Angeles, a city internationally renowned for its fervent love of storytelling, the nobody-saw-it-coming, 200-1 tale of the TCU Horned Frogs stumbled around Sofi Stadium like Buster Keaton on a broken projector screen — with the help of a Georgia Bulldogs […]
You like college football. I like college football. We both enjoy the institution of the bowl game. We will take in some weekday-afternoon bowl action while pretending to work in the middle of the month. We will sit on our couches or barstool on New Year’s Eve to watch the College Football Playoff semifinals, or […]
As it has ballooned over the decades, college football’s bowl calendar has become a lot to sift through. In 1970, there were only 11 bowls. In 2021, there are 42 in the Football Bowl Subdivision alone, not including the national championship game or the Celebration Bowl that crowns a Division I champ for historically Black […]
As I’ve written before, I love college football’s bowl season. Sure, there are probably too many of these goofy exhibition games, and nowadays star players sometimes skip them entirely. But there’s still something nostalgic and fun about sitting down around the holidays and binge-watching football games between obscure teams you wouldn’t have watched otherwise. It […]
The College Football Playoff has transformed the way teams and conferences build their schedules — and created plenty of controversy along the way — in the four seasons since it debuted. And even if the system could stand to make some improvements, it’s also been a relatively successful experiment in adding legitimacy to a championship […]