Penn State football icon Joe Paterno went from revered patriarch to reviled pariah. A look back, now, ten years after the Penn State sex abuse scandal.
An in-depth look at one of college sports' fiercest rivalries, Michigan-Michigan State, and how this in-state battle has only grown to new heights over the past decade in both football and basketball.
A profile of Charlie Ward, an All-American college football player, quarterback, college basketball player, professional basketball player, and Heisman Trophy winner.
After starting the year unranked, Danny Ford and the Tigers were the kings of college football, beating three top-10 ranked teams including defending national champion Georgia and fourth-ranked Nebraska in the Orange Bowl.
When Georgia Tech came to Michigan in 1934, the Wolverines were forced to bench their best play, Willis Ward, because he was an African-American. The incident infuriated Ward’s best friend on the team, a future president by the name of Jerry Ford, who threatened to quit the team in response. The friendship that began in the Big House lasted all the way to the White House. This is the story of two schools, two friends, and a game that changed everything.
An unexpected hero provided help as Betsy confronted a predator, an institution, and a justice system.
Highlights of thirteen important college football games played during the 1955 season.
Hokie Nation documents the world of the Virginia Tech football fan, the role the fans play in making it a top college football program and the traditions of the school and its team.
After winning the 2005 Rose Bowl in the final few seconds, the University of Texas came back to win the coveted BCS Championship in 2006, just as star quarterback Vince Young had predicted. This collector's edition program looks back on the team's dream season that ended the University of Southern California's three-year reign in a stunning come-from-behind victory, which some have called the greatest college football game ever played.
Produced in 2009 by ESPN for its "30 for 30" series, "The U" was a look at all that was good and bad about the rise of the University of Miami's football program in the 1980s. But that wasn't the end of the story. "The U Part 2" picks up where the original film left off, with the program trying to recover from the devastation left by NCAA sanctions and scandals that had some calling for the school to drop football. The Hurricanes rose from those ashes to win another national championship, only to face new controversies when a booster used a Ponzi scheme to win favor with the program.
We’re #1! – The Story of 1990 ACC Football, a documentary chronicling the remarkable 1990 football season in the Atlantic Coast Conference
In 1963 at Michigan State University, Head Coach Duffy Daugherty chose 23 black men to play on the college team. From this move came legends Gene Washington, Bubba Smith, George Webster and Clinton Jones. Director Maya Washington, Gene Washington’s daughter, charts the legacy of her father’s career and influence, along with the impact the events of 1963 have shown in the present day.
He was the first Black American drafted in the NFL, the only man to play 7 positions in the NFL. In college, his popularity enabled him to racially integrate the town of Bloomington, Indiana. He even integrated the local theater with the twist of a screwdriver. So why does no one know his name?
After a campus-wide zombie outbreak a slacker college student must protect his younger brother while becoming the unlikely leader of a small band of quirky survivors.
Alex and Brock are your typical small college jocks dealing with an annoying residence assistant, wacko monster obsessed professor, headcase for a coach, and of course lots of drunken women. Their lives get flipped upside down when a suspension from the football team saves them from being turned into bloodsucking minions. But with the authorities not buying their story, the pair must round up the few locals that do and hope they alone can stop a growing number of vampires, zombies, and even a werewolf before they turn everyone in town into a world conquering monster militia.
This Dogville comedy is a spoof of college football movies. A man in debt to a loan shark uses his daughter to stop football hero Red Mange from playing in the big game between Airedale College and Spitz University.
The true story of the greatest turnaround in college football history.
"Youngstown Boys" explores class and power dynamics in college sports through the parallel, interconnected journeys of one-time dynamic running back Maurice Clarett and former elite head coach Jim Tressel. Clarett and Tressel emerged from opposite sides of the tracks in Youngstown, Ohio, and then joined for a magical season at Ohio State University in 2002 that produced the first national football championship for the school in over 30 years. Shortly thereafter, though, Clarett was suspended from college football and began a downward spiral that ended with a prison term. Tressel continued at Ohio State for another eight years before his career there also ended in scandal.
The continuing rivalry between Auburn University and the University of Alabama. This is the story of the history between the two programs, the bad blood between its fans and how this intense rivalry came to a pinnacle, just when they ended up needing each other most.
Quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, a generational football talent, embarks on a journey that began from a childhood family prophecy. Follow Tua as he attempts to overcome a career-threatening injury and rise as one of the most uniquely skilled players in the history of the game.