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Tyrann Mathieu could be the first defensive Heisman winner since Charles Woodson in 1997. LSU is trying to keep him off-limits to the media, but Kevin Van Valkenburg hunted down the true story of the Honey Badger in ESPN The Magazine's College Footba...

To understand football's place in the South, you first have to see it from deep within the heart of Dixie. In ESPN The Magazine, southern author and Alabama journalism professor Rick Bragg explains why the SEC's fight for supremacy goes back to the C...

ESPN The Magazine provides a unique, fun and candid look at Stanford's Andrew Luck, David DeCastro, Jonathan Martin and Coby Fleener....

This story appears in the Feb. 6, 2012 "Recruiting Issue" of ESPN The Magazine. Last July, Alabama running back Trent Richardson agreed to participate in a project for The Mag's college football preview. We asked him to write down his goals and to...

In ESPN The Mag, Molly Knight writes about Rushel Shell, the third-ranked high school RB, who faced the biggest decision of his life when schools across the country started courting him. Then his girlfriend got pregnant, and the decision got even bigger.

In ESPN The Mag's College Football Preview, Alyssa Roenigk writes that in short-yardage, high-pressure situations, offenses call on their surest sure thing: the QB sneak. Yet players and coaches reveal that the last place you'll see it is in a playbook.

Drake University's football team will visit Africa in May where they'll play the first organized game in the continent's history

ESPN The Magazine convened 85 college football players for the August 24 issue. They discussed the 2009 Heisman Trophy, drugs, playoffs, gay teammates and everything else. Here are the findings.

Story | Conversation | August 12, 2009

A look at the Heisman ballots of some of ESPN's Heisman voters.

A sampling of other preseason polls to give a better feel of who the "experts" think is No. 1.

Sure, the SEC will walk away from the BCS era with the most championships. But The Mag's inaugural program standings aren't all about wins and losses. From the Sooners to the Hilltoppers, we rank the teams in both on- and off-field performance.

Story | Conversation | September 04, 2012

In ESPN The Magazine, Ryan McGee writes that the Oklahoma Sooners shouldn't be a surprise as The Mag's No. 1 team in the BCS era.

ESPN The Magazine asked RecruitingNation's experts to predict which stars from this year's recruiting class will take home awards in 2015 -- including a Heisman winner from Texas.

Story | Conversation | January 30, 2012

LaRue Cook looks at the nation's best programs at landing blue-chip recruits from outside their home state.

Story | Conversation | January 25, 2012

In a story for ESPN The Magazine, Heisman Predictor creator Ryan McCrystal evaluates three "Heisman games" that feature an underdog looking to rise up the standings and a favorite who would fall out of the race with a loss.

Story | Conversation | September 20, 2011

To celebrate memorable bleacher banter in its Fan Issue, ESPN The Magazine initiated a project to document the trash-talking that college fans are saying about their foes -- and to determine which put-down was the country's very best.