Round Two: Numbers and maps don’t mean much in college football anymore

Round Two: Numbers and maps don’t mean much in college football anymore

- Tom Hardesty

College football is my favorite sport.

Some of my earliest memories involve sitting in front of the television in the early 1970s watching the Ohio State-Michigan game and the Buckeyes playing in the Rose Bowl on New Year’s Day. The eye-catching visuals of the Scarlet and Gray lining up against those dreaded maize-and-blue wing-tip helmets, and the magical way the Buckeyes’ own silver helmets gleamed in the Southern California sunshine, were powerful images that are indelibly etched in my mind.

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