August 29, 1994 Table Of Contents
News Of The Week
By Tim Layden
By Bruce Newman
Track And Field
By Steve Rushin
College Football '94
Defense isn't the whole story, but it's enough to elevate the Wildcats to the top spot in the nation this fall
By Tim Layden
The nation's best player, Tyrone Wheatley, could've taken the money and run. Instead, he kept a promise to a little boy
By S.L. Price
Many coaches who didn't live happily ever after in the NFL are finding contentment in college ball
If you think today's conference landscape is confusing, get a load of the gerrymandered world of tomorrow
By Steve Rushin
By Franz Lidz
Here's how the remainder of the 107 teams in Division I-A stack up
Football became a big deal on Howard's Washington, D.C., campus when Steve Wilson took over
A national crown would be a fitting send-off for aspiring Central Florida
New Haven's Roger Graham is nearly unstoppable in an open field—and driven to improve
By Hank Hersch
North Alabama will roar to its second straight national championship
By Chad Millman
Carey Bender's big dreams came true at little Coe College, right in his own backyard
Washington & Jefferson will finally cap off its winning tradition
By Evan Kanew
For Navy kicker Ryan Bucchianeri, last fall was a season of testing on the field and of tragedy off it—a time that helped turn a talented boy into an exemplary young man
By William Nack
The College Football '94
By Douglas S. Looney
By S.L. Price
By Tim Layden
By J.B. Morris
By S.L. Price
By Tim Layden
By John Walters
By J.B. Morris
By Amy Nutt
By John Walters
SI 40th Anniversary
This 1962 SI Classic celebrated the unyielding idealism—and the 100th birthday—of the legendary coach Amos Alonzo Stagg
Point After
A national playoff would squeeze the life out of the college football season
By Tim Layden
Departments
By Mark Mulvoy
Edited by Jack McCallum And Kelli Anderson