College Football

Travel
How to Have a Winning Football Weekend in Columbia, South Carolina
A spirited itinerary for before, during, and after the tailgate
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Arts & Culture
Three Tips for Surviving the Heat of Game Days
Advice from a lifelong (long-suffering) football fan

Sports
Will Shaq Eat a Horned Frog?
A better question is, should Shaq eat a horned frog?

Arts & Culture
UGA vs. TCU: Which Is the Real Cinderella Team?
Because for fans of this all-Southern showdown, winning the expectations game is half the battle

Sporting
What Exactly Is a Horned Frog?
SuperFrog is ready for Monday’s big game between TCU and UGA. Here’s his backstory

Sporting
A Scouting Report on Juice, Ole Miss’s Four-Legged Rookie
The fan-favorite Labrador retriever is hard at work on his own training regimen

Arts & Entertainment
Alabama or Georgia? Who Southerners Are Cheering for Tonight
A survey of opinions ahead of the national championship game

Arts & Culture
A Former SEC Football Player’s Guide to Not Watching Tonight’s Big Game
Novelist Ace Atkins, a member of Auburn’s undefeated 1993 team, on college football rivalries and alternative game-night entertainment

Arts & Entertainment
For the Love of the Dawgs
A lifelong Georgia football fan on heartbreak and hope

Arts & Culture
College Football Decoded: Hail State
How a hashtag reignited Mississippi State’s battle cry

Sporting
Too Many Dawgs on the Field
During the 1997 game between Georgia and Kentucky, a chocolate Lab named Tubby went down in football history

Arts & Culture
College Football Decoded: Carolina Blue
Baby blue? Sky blue? Robin egg? What shade really is the Tar Heels’ iconic color?

Arts & Culture
College Football Decoded: Hotty Toddy
Gosh almighty, where did the University of Mississippi’s cheer come from?

Arts & Culture
College Football Decoded: Hokie
From a meaningless word to Virginia Tech’s (mostly) beloved HokieBird

Arts & Culture
College Football Decoded: Boomer Sooner
How two former insults became the University of Oklahoma’s favorite saying

Arts & Culture
College Football Decoded: Wahoowa
Hoo originated the University of Virginia’s famous saying?

Arts & Culture
College Football Decoded: War Eagle
Auburn’s golden eagles are a thing of (extremely strange) legend

Arts & Culture
The Singular Ecstasy of College Football in the South
Why so many of us worship at the altar of fall Saturdays

Arts & Culture
College Football Decoded: Roll Tide
Do you know the origin of Alabama’s greeting heard ’round the world?

Arts & Culture
Calling the Hogs 101
An Arkansan introduces a perplexed visitor from abroad to a hallowed Razorback tradition