Regardless of what the calendar said, I always knew college football season was coming when the preview magazines hit the shelves. If we were up at the lake, I’d duck in to the drugstore to grab them all off the shelf and spend glorious hours pouring over them on the porch. Prior to the days of the Internet information deluge, it was my only outlet to sate my curiosity about how the season could play out and what I should be looking for, and I enjoyed it fully.
While my thirst for knowledge now is slaked by the aforementioned deluge, it’s nice to return to those halcyon days of youth and take the time to digest a season preview in printed form.