College Football is the quintessential American game: contradictory, hypocritical, and violent. It is a mirror America holds up to itself to project an image of toughness, steadfastness, innovation, sportsmanship, and playing by the rules. From a fan's perspective, this book chronicles the evolution of a quirky, regional sport at the beginning of the age of mass media in the early 1960s to a 21st-century, multi-billion-dollar, nationalized, professionalized enterprise that only has a loose attachment to higher education and scholarly attainment. The question can asked: In the future will "College" still be a part of College Football