Sports Illustrated: The College
Football Book by Editors of Sports
Illustrated
Great Picture Book
Continuing its series of spectacular coffee-table books for the holiday
season, Sports Illustrated presents The College Football Book, the ultimate
gift for Americas most passionate fans.
SI launched this series in 2005 with The Football Book, devoted to the
professional game. A New York Times best-seller that year, the book has
taken root as a perennial, selling more than 200,000 copies to date. Now
the editors of Sports Illustrated return to the gridiron, this time to serve the
most avid football fans of all.

With the best words and pictures SI has to offer, The College Football
Book, brings to life the games unparalleled excitement and pageantry, its
legendary players, historic teams and epic rivalries.
In 288 pages of the greatest photography and writing available anywhere,
The College Football Book spans the sports history, from its infancy in the
1800s right up to the postseason showdowns of 2008. The book is packed
with stunning pictures, award-winning stories, original stats, decade-by-
decade all-star teams and iconic artifacts photographed exclusively for this
book at the College Football Hall of Fame--the same exciting mix of
elements that makes each book in the SI series a must-have for sports fan.
Personal Review: Sports Illustrated: The College Football Book
by Editors of Sports Illustrated
Well now you can! In picture! (It's still exciting!) Please be forewarned, this
is not a book for people who want stats, game scores, leaders, records,
anything that resembles numbers. If you want that, take a look at 50 Years
of College Football: A Modern History of America's Most Colorful Sport,
which is so exhaustive it belongs as a reference book. However, if you
want fun readings, big pictures from all eras (heck, the helmets on the
cover are fun to look at), and tribute the game itself, then this book is for
you.
Even with the lack of information regarding my personal favorite team,
there still is plenty of stuff. The pictures here are glossy, huge, and very
colorful (or a very vibrant black and white). There's collisions, running,
plays in action, some field storming, and pictures of Steve Spurrier when
he was in college (!!!). The artifacts section is very cool, spanning helmets
(the very first helmet is a scream), nose guards, and even the dirt of the
first college football game played. On a side note, I also like the
scoreboard of that Georgia Tech Vs. Cumberland game (220-0!). If you
haven't noticed already, this book has a lot of perks. College football fans
will appreciate all this book has to offer.
As far as writing goes, each era (20's to 00's, plus an "pre years" or
something of that nature), which includes information about the era,
dynasties of that time, Heisman winners, All-decade Teams, and "epic
games". Scattered throughout are columns and essays written by various
writers, on such topics like Herschel Walker, Steve Spurrier, OJ Simpson,
Bear Bryant, Joe Paterno, Woody Haynes, Archie Manning (Why no
Peyton Manning?), and Vince Young. They are nothing but well written,
especially evident when you going for somebody like Rick Reiley. There's
also a lengthy introduction.

This is really just a beautiful designed coffee table book. They do update
this book every year, too, but that still doesn't deter anything from it.
College Football fan? Bar none, own it.
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