Thursday, September 25, 2008

1979 Southern California

I haven't done one of these in a while, but I have a few photos left over so I'll finish them up over the rest of this season.

Charles White had six carries for 70 yards on the key possession of the fourth quarter, when the Trojans went 83 yards for a 17-16 victory that cost Ohio State the national championship. Courtesy of the Tournament of Roses archives.

The book front is picking up as we're doing more promos and marketing. As for the handbook series, I'll be finishing up the Georgia book, minus this season's updates, over the next few days and then turning my attention to Tennessee. Hopefully I can wrap up the Ohio State book soon as well.

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

An early lead for Miami

Those of you who have followed this blog know that every year I do a ranking of the best college football programs featuring 10 categories, half all-time and half based on the previous season. Well, the first category for next year's rankings are in, NFL players on opening day.

Here's the Top 25, according to the NFL:

1. Miami 44
2. Florida State 37
3. Georgia 36
(tie) Michigan 36
(tie) Ohio State 36
6. Louisiana State 35
7. Tennessee 34
(tie) Texas 34
9. Southern California 32
10. Florida 30
11. Notre Dame 28
12. Auburn 27
(tie) California 27
14. Virginia Tech 25
15. Nebraska 24
16. Maryland 23
17. Boston College 22
(tie) Michigan State 22
(tie) Penn State 22
20. North Carolina 21
(tie) Purdue 21
22. Iowa 20
23. Arizona State 19
(tie) Georgia Tech 19
(tie) Louisville 19
(tie) Texas A&M 19


Just out of the Top 25 with 18 were Alabama, Kansas State, North Carolina State, Oklahoma, UCLA and Virginia.

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Another handbook finished (sort of)

Week 1 of the college football is over, and I have to admit that I'm already tired. Granted, a night game in Atlanta is a little unusual, not to mention Alabama destroying Clemson (it's been a while, you know?), but I shouldn't be this fatigued already, should I?

Regardless, I finally got the Notre Dame handbook done, at least until I need to add all the 2008 updates in about four months. The Fighting Irish open their season this week against San Diego State, which quite honestly shouldn't be much of a challenge, but you never know.

Ok, with five handbooks to finish by the end of the year, that works out to roughly one every three weeks. So this month I'm going with a different plan, work on Ohio State for two weeks and then finish Georgia by the end of the month. I did a ton of preliminary work on Georgia and with road trips at the end of September (at Arkansas, at Georgia) it shouldn't be a problem.

Of course, the bad part of that is I probably will be spending very little time in Athens, one of my favorite college towns.