Best-ever CFB stories

[Bristol Insider]

Compiling a list for a project and am eager to get additional opinions:
Best College Football story you've ever read ...

 

[The Big Ragu]

The Best Years of his Life. ... John Ed Bradley, 2002 in SI.

 

[Songbird]

The story isn't done. I hope Kevin finishes it, perhaps when it gets to be 10 years later ...

NFL: Adam Muema's message from God

 

[Azrael]

NEBRASKA RIDES HIGH

Archives of the University of Notre Dame :: Knute Rockne's Recreation of a Pep Speech

Story of the Week: The Ghost of the Gridiron

Medora Goes to the Game - George Plimpton

Did George O'Leary pay too high a price for his résumé?

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Tim Layden's "The Forgotten Hero" about a player at Williams College whose number was unofficially retired after he died in the 1960s and nobody remembered why.

SI 60: The Forgotten Hero by Tim Layden

 

[jackfinarelli]

Anything written by Jim Tom Pinch ???

 

[Tighthead]

The Toughest Coach There Ever Was | Sports Illustrated Vault | SI.com

I remember this one, I was 13 and pretty clueless on CFB.

 

[hondo]

The Toughest Coach There Ever Was | Sports Illustrated Vault | SI.com

I remember this one, I was 13 and pretty clueless on CFB.

The best sports article I ever read, regardless of subject.

 

[hondo]

And the best game story I ever read ...

As Good As It Gets Nebraska beat Oklahoma in a '71 showdown that had all the stuff of legend BY This story is an SI Classic, reprinted from the issue of Dec. 6, 1971.

 

[Liut]

The Toughest Coach There Ever Was | Sports Illustrated Vault | SI.com

I remember this one, I was 13 and pretty clueless on CFB.

Thanks for posting. Enjoyed the story. FWIW, the late Tom Goode was head coach at East Mississippi for quite a few years. Was the deep-snapper on Jim O'Brien's game-winning field goal in Super Bowl V.

 

[Liut]

Herschel Nissenson's 2001 book Tales from College Football might give you some ideas, tips. Pretty neat book.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Anything I wrote as a collegian in the mid-'90s.

(Not really)