Editor’s note: Throughout the offseason, The Athletic is celebrating the 150th anniversary of college football, one decade at a time. For more on the 2000s, read Michael Weinreb on the Age of Ideas ...

Twenty-five years ago, Purdue football entered the 2000 season with a Heisman candidate quarterback, perhaps the nation's best offensive line and coupled it with a young, hungry defense loaded with ...

College sports, football especially, will always be over-shadowed by pro-league football. It's too bad, college games can be just as, if not more exciting, than an NFL game, and NCAA Football 2000 is ...

N o singular moment defined Oklahoma’s journey to the 2000 football national championship. There wasn’t one play, one drive, one game or one week that brought the Sooners their seventh national title.

Editor’s note: This is the third in an occasional series examining the people, events and impacts of Oklahoma’s 2000 national championship season 20 years later. The first and second stories can be ...

In the last year of the 20th century, quarterback play in college football seemed to be making a quantum leap. Virginia Tech's Michael Vick was showing us a combination of rushing and passing prowess ...

The 2000's were a great decade for college football. Some of the greatest players in the history of the sport helped shape and define this era. With the BCS creating more debate and controversy than ...

As the Wolverines gear up for a run at another national title with its first-ever appearance in the College Football Playoff, MLive is looking back at some of the best University of Michigan players ...

What is Nick Saban’s defining trait that makes him stand out above every other college football coach in the country? The 71-year-old Saban is an exceptional recruiter, a committed teacher and ...

Editor's note: This story is the fourth in a series related to Purdue's 2000 football season. Joe Tiller was big on goal setting, and each spring in individual meetings with every member of the Purdue ...