Visit enough high school fieldhouses and you’re bound to hear plenty of homespun wisdom about how schemes don’t matter as much as players. “Jimmys and Joes are a lot more important than Xs and Os,” you’ll hear, often followed by a watery dip spit into a paper cup.

Alabama running back Richard Young enters his third season in Tuscaloosa as a potential breakout candidate for the Crimson Tide.

The baton for the top conference in the country has been passed begrudgingly to the Big Ten. Sorry, SEC, you can't boast two consecutive national champions without getting that honor, and that's what your northern rivals currently boast.