Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college football (“Reqiuem for a Pylon Route” T-shirts sold separately in College Station):
FIRST QUARTER
THE OCTOBER BLOCKBUSTER WEEKEND IS COMING
This week is why college football always wins, in spite of itself. No matter how much the people in charge try to screw it up, they can’t fully ruin it. No matter how greedy the power brokers are, how heedless they are with money, how much they push around the fans, how rudderless the entire enterprise is—the sport always delivers. It gives us weeks like this.