The Big Ten is back

The battle for statues, axes and jugs kicks-off this weekend

SEVEN weeks after the season officially started some of college football’s most famous teams will finally take the field this weekend.

Showtime for Miami in Death Valley

Saturday night sees the Miami Hurricanes challenge number one ranked Clemson Tigers

DYNASTIES dominate college football in every sense, from the teams that define the ages, to how the sport venerates its most famed institutions.

The SEC: football’s ‘best conference’ tells the history of the South

This Saturday BT ESPN coverage features three games from the SEC ‘the best conference’ which tells the history of the old South

SATURDAYS in the South matter because it is where college football matters as do its traditions and customs but when does holding on to the past become a barrier to progress?

Hallelujah: Thank God for underdogs and upsets

IMAGINE the reaction if following an FA Cup upset the manager of the victorious underdogs, rather than thanking the crowd and crediting his team’s never say die attitude, offered “all praises and glory to God”.

A college football season like no other

America’s college football season is available to view on BT Sport in the UK – here’s what you need to know

The autumn, or the fall as it is known across the Atlantic, is a season of tradition and ritual encapsulated by America’s love affair with college football – but these coming months will be like no other in recent memory.

The Bengals, Wembley and modern football

Washington Redskins 27 @ Cincinnati Bengals 27 (Wembley Stadium, London, England)

THE NFL played the 17th game in its London International Series on Sunday but it took the Cincinnati Bengals travelling the near 4,000 miles to the UK for me to make the 149 mile journey from Cardiff, Wales to Wembley Stadium.

While regular season games are a genuine privilege for UK fans the event itself is a move from the strictly business play book of the NFL’s sharpest minds – the executives who measure success not in yards and points but dollars and cents.

Gridiron, doping and sporting redemption

Jason Livingston went from the Olympics to a Welsh American Football team via Cardiff City

BRITISH American Football has agreed an anti-doping code – which might seem strange for a sport that off the field has more in common with Sunday league than it does the NFL’s Monday Night Football – but it brings back memories of the game’s connection to one of British sport’s most infamous doping cases.

Jason Livingston # 44

In July 1992 the world’s best athletes had gathered in Barcelona for the Olympic Games but as the track and field events were due to begin promising British sprinter Jason Livingston was heading home in, as these things are always reported, “disgrace”.

Britain’s American Football Warriors

"It's the sport of kings, better than diamond rings/That's why we're here to sing, football/Sundays in the snow, referee's whistle blows/Weekend warriors toe-to-toe, football."

WHAT can better encapsulate the 1980s than an LL Cool J rap, a Goldie Hawn film and American Football? Ladies Love recorded his feelings for America's game in Football Rap, the theme tune to 1986 comedy Wildcats.