College football teams are using tight ends more often, more prominently and in more ways, but few teams have ever had a tight end like Florida’s Kyle Pitts. When SEC football returned on Sept. 26, Pitts dominated from the outset, catching eight passes for 170 yards and four touchdowns in the season opener. He scored […]
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, […]
For almost 40 years, the pulse of college football could be taken in Florida. The state won 11 national titles from 1983 to 2013. The history of college football cannot be written without the Florida Gators, Florida State Seminoles and Miami Hurricanes, without coaches like Steve Spurrier, Bobby Bowden and Dennis Erickson or players like […]
When I was growing up in the 1990s, it was hard to imagine the football programs at Florida State and Nebraska ever losing steam. The Huskers won national championships in 1994, 1995 and 1997; FSU took its own titles in 1993 and 1999 (plus went to two more BCS Championship Games, in 1998 and 2000). […]
Thanksgiving week: time for turkey, stuffing and pumpkin pie. And college football, too! For many teams, it’ll be their last game of the year. But some are eyeing the College Football Playoff. Thirteen, to be exact. A baker’s dozen teams have more than a 1 percent shot at one of the four playoff spots, according […]