According to 65 college football coaches blessed with varying degrees of skill as a soothsayer, the University of Alabama - which just also happens to be the sport's defending national champion - deserves to be ranked No. 1 in the preseason Coaches Poll.
It was early August, 1998.
Former University of Tennessee and NFL quarterback Peyton Manning's greatness goes far beyond the football field, and Chattanooga has benefited from his charitable nature on multiple occasions.
If this four-man University of Tennessee quarterback competition that's about to begin was being decided by a video game, redshirt sophomore Brian Maurer is pretty sure he knows who would win.
It should have been different. After all, this was Hank Aaron Weekend at Truist Park, the Atlanta Braves honoring the greatest player in their history a few months after his death.
Hope. Isn't that what the start of every sports season brings us, especially football?
The pain in former University of Tennessee at Chattanooga golfing great Derek Rende's voice late Tuesday afternoon was obvious, yet sadly familiar.
Check the roster of the 2016 United State's men's basketball team that won Olympic gold and you'll find such names as Kevin Durant, Jimmy Butler, Kyrie Irving, Klay Thompson and Paul George, All-Pros all.
Forty-two years.
Change is almost always hard. Yours truly is still coming to grips with the fact that the Earth is apparently round instead of flat. It's so much more comfortable for some of us when everything stays the same.
