The hatred was never about football. It started with fire and rifles along a state line in the 1850s, and it never really left. Twenty-five years since Lawrence last hosted this war, and the drum has sat locked away in Columbia the whole time, waiting on a homecoming nobody was sure would come. The border remembers. Soon, it will clash.

4 years in, the Deion Sanders experiment is shaky. Even after producing a Heisman winner, the Buffalos are falling to the back of the herd. With the coaching carousel increasing, how long does he have left until Colorado moves on?

What if Oregon had offered Tua Tagovailoa before Alabama ever got the chance? Would one of college football’s most iconic careers have unfolded on the West Coast instead?