Introduction

    With no offense to Jayson Stark and Sal Paolantonio, my ESPN colleagues
who wrote the first two books in this series, I don’t know why Triumph
Books didn’t start with me. Not me, specifically, but the sport I cover.
Opinion is the mother’s milk of college football. The polls—opinion polls,
lest we forget—owned exclusivity over the national championship until
recent years, when the conference commissioners created the BCS formula.
    Me, I believe that mother’s milk holds more nutrients than formula.
    You have your opinion. Trust me, I know. It lands in my inbox at
ESPN.com with a thud every day. I think I have been accused of having
either a love affair with, or a grudge against, nearly every region or major
conference in the country, not to mention a few minor ones. I grew up in
an SEC state, went to school in the Pac-10, worked in Big 12 country for
seven years, and have lived the last 14 in the Big East (slogan: “Sometimes
Relevant Since 1991”), and every one of those facts has been used to justify
my readers’ spewfest when they disagree with me.

Signing Events

Nov. 12: Borders Book Store, Fairfield, CT

Speaking Appearances

Sept. 25: Mobile Touchdown Club

Oct. 27: Little Rock Touchdown Club