2017 season

Pages in History from July 2017 to June 2018, oldest first.

A football season runs from July to June, so a January bowl game or a spring rule change sits with the season before it.

Every game The 2017 season, game by game

Each dot is a page. The space between dots is drawn to the real calendar.

1. Sep 3, 2017UCLA comes back from 34 points down to beat Texas A&M

   Josh Rosen, UCLA quarterback

   We were an inch away from losing that game probably ten times …

2. Nov 25, 2017Auburn beats top-ranked Alabama in the Iron Bowl and wins the SEC West

   Nick Saban, Alabama head coach

   I’m sorry I could not do a better job as a coach and as a leader.

3. Jan 1, 2018Georgia beats Oklahoma in double overtime in the Rose Bowl, and Oklahoma’s coach says no one play lost it

   Baker Mayfield, Oklahoma quarterback

   But I gave it everything I had. That’s what I’ve always been about.

4. Jan 8, 2018Alabama beats Georgia in overtime for the national title, and its coach says he thought the team had to throw the ball

   Nick Saban, Alabama head coach

   I just thought we had to throw the ball, and I felt he could do it better, and he did

5. Jun 13, 2018The NCAA ends the permission rule for transfers

   Justin Sell, South Dakota State athletic director who led the NCAA transfer working group

   The membership showed today that it supports this significant change in transfer rules …

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