A Brief Guide to College Football’s Strange New Landscape

When I was in college in the ‘90s, I once played the old EA Sports College Football video game for so many hours in a row that my roommates began to look to me like Otto the Orange and the Stanford Tree. That game taught me more about college football than I learned being an actual fan: which teams ran interesting offenses, how stadiums in states I’d never visited really looked, what the University of Hawaii “Co-Ed” fight song sounded like. By the time I actually...