College football ends annually with a series of bowl games, some of which have more meaning than others. Many of the sport's ...

In college football, games and legacies can be decided by a matter of inches. Throughout much of college football history, even a single loss could derail a team’s hopes for a national championship. A ...

After a couple members of the 1980 Minnesota Duluth football team died suddenly a few years ago, the remaining members made it a point to get together more often, not at funerals, but at celebrations.

If you buy something from a link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. In 1980, Georgia won its only modern national title thanks to a key freshman (all-time running back ...

The success of 1979 and 1980 was soon forgotten as the Patriots could only muster two wins in 1981. The franchise had become a laughing stock of the league and always found new ways to lose. The team ...

In 1980, South Carolina running back George Rogers ran his way to the Heisman Trophy and a place in college football history. With Rogers stampeding all over the field, the Gamecocks put together a ...

On Saturday, Dec. 6, 1980, most UD students were huddled around TVs in the Kennedy Union lounge and TV rooms, in most dorm rooms, even on TVs dragged out to front porches in the student neighborhood.

Bill Lewis, Georgia’s secondary coach in the glorious football season of 1980, was in Athens recently to see the grandchildren, the ones living in Oconee County where his son, Geoff, is a teacher and ...

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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The Chicago Tribune Silver Football — 100 years later — remains one of the highest honors a Big Ten player can receive. The list of winners includes future ...

The United States Football League, which challenged the NFL‘s dominance in the 1980s before collapsing after just three seasons, will attempt a comeback in the spring of 2022. Fox Sports has signed on ...