With another BCS season on the horizonESPN Magazine 2013 College Football Preview, on newsstands Friday, features a variety of content to help fans prepare, including the following storylines: Johnny Football’s fight for glory, Jadeveon Clowney’s next big hit, and Lache Seastrunk’s escape from a complicated past.
College Football Preview Issue Features:
ESPN Power Rankings
Players come and go, but somehow the best college programs stay at the top. To reveal how teams leave their indelible marks, The Mag teamed up with ESPN analysts Brock Huard and David Pollack and other insiders to identify must-win plays and defensive assignments. Takeaway meals? Follow the tide.
92 college football players give answers to The Mags the toughest questions, including topics like gay teammates, PEDs, concussions, and dating the coach’s daughter.
The Mags Wright Thompson writes about Johnny Manziel, the Heisman winner whose celebrity status threatens to derail his career and the Aggies’ season.
Here comes the boom
South Carolina’s Jadeveon Clowney shunned the spotlight to focus on the field. The Mags Ryan McGee takes readers into Clowney’s world and how, while it’s not easy being one of the best players in college football, it’s much harder for those unlucky enough to face him .
Almost infamous
The Mags Tim Keown shows why Baylor’s Lache Seastruck wants to make you forget the past and remember his name for his game.
Additional highlights from the College Football Preview issue:
- “Innocence lost:” The Mags Eddie Matz takes readers into the world of Baltimore first baseman Chris Davis – he keeps going deeper, but in the age of PEDs, does that mean he’s guilty?
- “The price of leadership”: The truth Columnist Howard Bryant says that following Aaron Hernandez’s arrest, Bill Belichick and Tom Brady owed the public much more than they contributed.
- ‘Under new management’: After an offseason with little player movement, the faces on Premier League pitches should be surprisingly familiar when the season begins on August 17. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t change happening. Just look towards the sidelines at the screaming men in expensive suits. The Mag explores how new EPL managers juggle expectations.
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