Thrill of the game

All Sports Jan 12, 2017 Meredith Spelbring -Every fall when college football season rolls around, ESPN makes me feel like the most popular person in the world by blowing up my phone with updates from every team and major game across the country. My normal response is to just quickly glance at the notification and then clear it if it is not one of “my teams.”

But this most recent football season changed that. Suddenly every update and alert had some relevance and intrigued me.

I love all sports, but my heart belongs to the world of college athletics. Every game and event is exciting and unpredictable. Athletes give the game everything they have purely because they love it. The level of…