The futuristic Allegiant Stadium — dubbed the “Death Star” because it resembles the Star Wars space station — is the perfect setting for an event that has now achieved almost supernatural status. The stadium, with its black façade, dark windows,…
As discussions of greatest-ever go, this one’s pretty clear-cut. There’s always room for debate — sports talk radio wouldn’t exist without it — but the best college football coach of all time (the GOAT) has to be the guy in…
The last Selection Sunday of the four-team College Football Playoff era went down pretty much according to chalk. Michigan’s inclusion everybody was certain of. Undefeated, ranked No. 1, conqueror of archrival Ohio State. Nobody for a moment doubted their bona…
From late Saturday afternoon (or early Saturday evening, depending on your time zone) until noon or so Sunday, the universe of college football held its breath. The College Football Playoff Selection Committee (try saying that fast) would be meeting in…
Got your fill of Coach Prime yet? If college football has had a face this season, it’s been the well-known mug of Deion Sanders, head coach of the Colorado Buffaloes, albeit concealed behind reflective shades and hidden partially under a…
The budding narrative of this season’s college football landscape can be found not in Georgia, Alabama, or State College, Pennsylvania — even though the Nittany Lions should be formidable — but rather about 1,500 miles due west in Boulder, Colorado. …
The Pac-12, one of the nation’s Power Five athletic conferences, died last Friday. Some are even pinpointing the time of death — 7 a.m. The presidents and chancellors of the member universities were supposed to assemble in emergency session at…
That scrambling you hear is not Tom Brady trying to avoid hot pursuit by 290-pound tacklers with ill intent. It’s sports writers and sportscasters scrambling to find what they will write or talk about now that Tom Brady has called…
Monday night in Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium, the TCU Horned Frogs had about as much chance against the fired-up Georgia Bulldogs as an armadillo has against a steel-belted radial. I’d repeat the score here, but the children might still be…
The inevitable happened last week in the world of college football. No, the big boys of the college game have not broken free of NCAA shackles to do their own highly profitable, self-governing thing. Not yet, anyway. The present inevitability…