Outside the Beltway

The four-team Playoff will go out making a lot of folks mad.

If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em?

A one-of-a-kind coach is gone far too soon.

A historic achievement for the first-year starter.

An epic but improbable win.

The city’s second major championship was among the most improbable.

Disappointment turns to tragedy.

The cost of raising a university’s profile.

A study in contrasts.

Stupid is as stupid does.

Should he be worried about the appearance of partisan gaming?

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.

Our cultural divide over the pandemic is turning us into worse people.

A mind-boggling statistic.

Comparing the White House’s approach to that of sports leagues on testing.

Three negative tests have overturned an initial false positive.

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

Is political satire even possible in the age of Trump?

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

Mal Moore, who was part of ten football championships at Alabama, has died at 73.

FSU’s Jimbo Fisher offers interesting insights into the coaching profession.

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.

College football coaching salaries jumped 35 percent last year and 55 percent in the last six.

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