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COLLEGE FOOTBALL

20 YOU'LL SEE RED
This will be a vintage year for upsets, thanks to a freshman redshirt rule the NCAA passed in 1978

28 A PITTSBURGH GUY
Danny Marino has eyes for a Heisman Trophy and the national title for his top-ranked Panthers

40 SCOUTING REPORTS
Reports on each Top 20 team, plus the Best of the Rest (page 80), predicted standings for all Division l-A and l-AA conferences (page 86) and a rundown of the Small College scene (page 96)

74 THE RUNNING BACKS
A photographic essay on the extraordinary crop of ballcarriers that will be on display this season

100 TV RADIO
Good-humor-man Beano Cook sold the NCAA on CBS, and then he had to sell himself to ABC

102 KAPP IS BACK
California counts on alum Joe Kapp to turn things around, even though he's a rookie coach

PRO FOOTBALL

126 A CRITICAL YEAR
A new league, a renegade owner and drugs are just some of the big problems facing the NFL

134 THE SACKERS
Rushing the passer is the key to NFL football, and the Jets have the game's best Front Four

152 A TARGET NO MORE
In the comfort of retirement, Ram Quarterback Pat Haden recalls the bumps, bruises and boos

160 THEY'RE NO. 1
The Dallas Cowboy Organization has produced the NFL's top winner and its most hated team

178 SCOUTING THE NFL
Mike Giddings uses his own color-coding system to rate all of the pros for eight league teams

186 SCOUTING REPORTS
Paul Zimmerman provides the lowdown on all 28 NFL teams and picks the finish in each division

210 TV RADIO
For Val Pinchbeck, arranging the 224-game NFL television schedule is hardly as easy as ABC

214 THE LIVING ENDS
A look at the top two NFL receivers the past two years, Kellen Winslow and Dwight Clark

CREDITS ON PAGE 208

FOUR PHOTOS