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In 1966, Notre Dame head coach Ara Parseghian made a decision that would rattle the constituency of the sport.

In this short bonus clip from Jimmy Kimmel Live, Jimmy asks former football coach Jimmy Johnson if he would yell at a baby....

It wasn't long after PTI’s launch in 2001 that Notre Dame fired football coach Bob Davie. Eleven years later, the Irish are finally back on top, ranked no. 1 and playing for the BCS title. Mike Wilbon and Tony Kornheiser have somehow kept their...

The football team at Division III's Mount Union is one of the most dominant collegiate programs in history. How? A man named Larry Kehres.

The success of Chip Kelly's Oregon offense is more familiar than it seems.

Marcel Meyer was a 17-year-old kid playing football at Westfield High School in Houston, Texas, when the program got a new head football coach. "It was a huge deal because our high school paid him $100,000-a-year salary, plus a 'company car.' The oth...

So you want to fire your college football coach. I understand! My coach just showed up at the Cotton Bowl with a team that looked like it had graduated from the Wade Phillips School of Game Planning and the Jason Garrett Institute for Workplace Mo...

The University of Michigan football coach on his eighth-ranked Wolverines, the BCS playoff, and classic rock.

Is Todd Graham, the new head football coach at Arizona State, the worst person in the universe? Let's consider the evidence. In 2006, Graham was the coach at Rice. Mr. Premature Evacuation, as the Houston Chronicle called him, lasted one whole sea...

Ron Brown and the beginning of the end of homophobia in sports.

The multi-talented Joe Posnanski, writer and podcaster for Sports Illustrated and SI.com, joins the podcast this week. With a book about Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, we get JoePo's take on JoePa breaking the all-time Division I record for c...

1. University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Ind. 2. Brian Kelly, football coach, University of Notre Dame Let me just say this first: I've never had a particular affinity for Notre Dame. I believe gold is an overvalued metal and leprechauns are terr...

1. Greg Schiano, football coach, Rutgers University College football is the most compelling sport in America, yet nothing is more torturous than listening to college football coaches speak publicly about their teams. I know this because I spent Tu...

Last Saturday, Nick Saban offered a scholarship to an eighth-grader. Saban is the best coach in college football because he is also its most zealous authoritarian, and yet, in this case, what Saban did is not quite as Machiavellian as it sounds. For ...

"The running game in pro football has gotten so boring," former 49ers coach Bill Walsh remarked some years ago. "There's just four or five plays they can run. I think the whole thing is headed in the wrong direction, and it's really unfortunate." Eve...

Looking back on a season of heroic ineptitude and occasional brilliance from the keepers of the red challenge flags.