Many believe SEC football media days to be the unofficial kickoff to the college football season.
The long wait for tailgates and homecoming and rivalries and everything — down to the heartbreak — that makes college football such a high truly starts when the latest edition of the Phil Steele's College Football Preview hits your hands.
Whether you pull it off the rack at a bookstore, or rip it out of your mailbox, the wealth of information packed inside stirs the soul.
Here are some notes I jotted down while devouring another year's worth of glossy pages, just in time for next week's SEC football media days.