NY Times · Nov 24, 2021
A College Football Crash Course for Thanksgiving
Maybe you need to silence the cousin who insists on saying the Ohio State University, or appease the sister-in-law from Cincinnati who is tired of the university down Interstate 71 being overlooked.
Perhaps there is the brother who is certain, just like some of his fellow fans have been almost every season since the Reagan administration, that this is Georgia’s year, or the aunt who went to Texas but requires a reminder that there are other (and, this season, far better) teams in the Big 12 Conference.
The end of college football’s regular season rarely brings out the best in any of us, so when better to consider conflicting opinions and revisionist history than at Thanksgiving?
