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Six games in 5 days: What a college football road trip taught me about the state of the sport


College football is an assault on the senses. It’s the smell of gumbo simmering in a cauldron on a foreign campus, a literal melting pot of clashing cultures. It’s the sound of 20,000 voices carrying out the final stanzas of “Enter Sandman,” that Virginia Tech anthem, after the speakers cut Metallica’s guitars. College football is so many things. (The Athletic)

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Six games in 5 days: What a college football road trip taught me about the state of the sport