Ohio State Buckeyes football coach Urban Meyer in game three of the NBA Finals between the Golden State Warriors and the Cleveland Cavaliers at Quicken Loans Arena.(Photo: Bob Donnan, USA TODAY Sports) For much of the sports nation, Thursday is Christmas morning. Our greatest sports passion will be rekindled in dozens of giddy outposts across the nation over the long holiday weekend. Nearly eight months after it left us in a blur of scarlet and gray happiness, college football is back. Never has the game been more flawed, or more beloved. There is serious, real-life controversy at Baylor, Southern California and North Carolina as the season kicks off, and all kinds of other shenanigans and mischief playing out in the name of college football around the nation, but somehow alums and fans at those schools will carry on as if nothing much is happening, just as so many alums and fans from other schools have done for generations. This is what we do. College football isn’t apart from us. It’s attached to us. Follow the road to the 2015 College Football Playoff at The Football Four, our home to rate and debate the nation’s best. Check that. It is us. …
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