Outside the Beltway

The biggest news doesn’t always get the most attention.

A historic achievement for the first-year starter.

An epic but improbable win.

The erosion of representativeness continues.

Disappointment turns to tragedy.

The cost of raising a university’s profile.

The Crimson Tide’s best season is one that shouldn’t have been played.

Steve Sarkisian joins a frustrating trend.

The best two teams in college football play for it all amid some controversy.

A mind-boggling statistic.

Three negative tests have overturned an initial false positive.

Alabama’s head football coach and athletic director have both tested positive for COVID-19.

Yet another twist in an ongoing saga.

Another small step toward canceling the fall sports calendar.

The hopes of football in the fall are fading fast.

Alabama has won more games at the Cowboys’ home field this year than the Cowboys.

Kenny “The Snake” Stabler, legendary Alabama Crimson Tide and Oakland Raiders quarterback, has died of cancer at the age of 69.

Some preliminary thoughts on the inaugural college playoff system.

Weeks of speculation that Texas would fire Mack Brown and hire Nack Saban were put to an end yesterday evening.

Irony is officially dead.

Last January 1, some of us made a series of predictions. Here’s how we did.

Johnny Manziel won the Heisman Trophy last night, becoming the first “freshman” to do so.

In “Eyes on the Prize,” Chuck Culpepper looks at Saban’s first season as a head coach, with Toledo, way back in 1989-90. It seems that Nick Saban has been Nick Saban for a very long time.

How dominant is the Southeastern Conference? It’s won more titles in the big sports since 2005 than all other conferences combined.

There’s no perfect system for choosing a champion but we can do better than this.

So, what’s next?

Real news reporting has never paid for itself. But the days of it being subsidized by the local car dealer are rapidly ending.

Sports Illustrated is trying to force subscribers to pay for a bundle of web and print services. Bad idea.