College Football Is Upon Us

So there are other sports, and then…there is college football. Since bowl games ended last January, we have waited months for the pigskin’s return. Packed stadiums, marching bands, and mascots all fire up tomorrow night as the 2007 college football season gets under way. Whether you’re a Longhorn, Aggie, Red Raider, or Banana Slug the college football season brings regional and national rivalries. As the season progresses and you find yourself watching game after game, grab one of these fine books and take a gander at some of the history behind the collegiate gridiron.

Michael Lewis’ Blind Side: Evolution of a game

Michael Hurd’s Black college football, 1892-1992: One hundred years of history, education, and pride

Bob Boyles’ Fifty years of college football: A modern history of America's most colorful sport

Brian Curtis’ Every week a season: A journey inside big-time college football

Ted Mandell’s Heart stoppers and Hail Marys: 100 of the greatest college football finishes

James Kirby’s Fumble: Bear Bryant, Wally Butts, and the great college football scandal

Mark Wangrin’s Horns!: A history: the story of Longhorns football

The 2006 Rose Bowl game: National championship

Mike Shropshire’s Runnin' with the big dogs: The true, unvarnished story of the Texas-Oklahoma football wars

W.K. Stratton’s Backyard brawl: Inside the blood feud between Texas and Texas A & M

Katie Hnida’s Still kicking: My journey as the first woman to play Division I college football

Richard Pennington’s Home field: An illustrated history of 120 college football stadiums

Eddie Robinson’s Never before, never again: The stirring autobiography of Eddie Robinson, the winningest coach in the history of college football