Christopher J. Walsh has been an award-winning sports journalist since 1990, and currently covers University of Alabama football for the Tuscaloosa News. Previous beats include the Green Bay Packers, Arizona Cardinals and Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the National Football League, and Major League Baseball's Arizona Diamondbacks. The writer/columnist has been twice nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and 2005 helped the Tuscaloosa News earn a First Amendment Award (formerly Freedom of Information Award) from the Associated Press Managing Editors. He's won numerous awards from the Associated Press Sports Editors, Alabama Managing Editors, and Alabama Press Association. Previous books include Crimson Storm Surge: Alabama Football Then and Now, No Time Outs: What It's Really Like to Be a Sportswriter Today, and Where Football Is King: A History of the SEC.
If you love your team as much as you hate the BCS, you'll love this
book by one of college football's great historians.
*The Denver Post*
Celebrating one's favorite team being named the national champion
is the favorite aspect of being a college football fan. Taking part
in debates about what team deserves to be No. 1 runs a close
second. In this book, Christopher Walsh reminds us of some of those
debates while at the same time pointing out why some of those
arguments will never be settled.
*Mobile-Press Register*
As long as the BCS system lords over college football, fans are
sure to keep its debate alive. But leave it to college footballl
guru Christopher Walsh to reveal its flaws and show how the coffers
of the country's top programs benefit from its existence.
*Sarasota Herald-Tribune Sports Columnist*
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