How Pop Warner’s “Trick Plays” and Jim Thorpe Toppled an Ivy League Giant
Darin In 1907, the forward pass was still a football gimmick, a dangerous new rule (legalized...
Greatest College Games
The Fourth-and-25 Miracle: How Arkansas Stole an Upset from Ole Miss
November 7, 2015, was supposed to be a standard home victory for the No. 18...
Tide vs. Tigers: The Night Defenses Ruled the “Game of the Century” (2011)
In college football, some matchups are billed as legendary, but few deliver the suffocating intensity...
The Miracle in Evanston: How Northwestern Stole a Shootout from Michigan in 2000
On November 4, 2000, the Big Ten witnessed a game for the ages—a clash between...
The Day the Streak Died: How Two Punt Returns Launched Colorado to Glory in 1989
November 4, 1989. The air in Boulder was electric, heavy with the weight of two...
Seven Overtimes, 80 Points: The Wildest College Football Game of November 3, 2001
The Vaught-Hemingway Marathon: On November 3, 2001, the atmosphere at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium in Oxford, Mississippi,...
Shakespeare’s Timely Toss: How Notre Dame Stunned Ohio State in the “Game of the Century”
November 2, 1935. The atmosphere at Ohio Stadium in Columbus was electric. Two undefeated Midwestern...
The Streak Stops Here: How Virginia’s Goal Line Stand Ended FSU’s ACC Reign (1995)
For three seasons, the Florida State Seminoles had been the untouchable rulers of the Atlantic...
The Catch That Shook College Football: Michael Crabtree and the Miracle in Lubbock
It’s a moment frozen in time—a desperate heave into the Texas night that delivered one...
Bedlam Battle: The Day Barry Sanders Tried to Break Oklahoma’s Streak (1988)
On November 5, 1988, the annual Bedlam Series between No. 8 Oklahoma and No. 12...