College Football: Game Time!

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Players from the Tulane Green Wave wait to take the field before playing the Ole Miss Rebels at the Superdome, September 11, 2010, in New Orleans. As anyone who's ever been to a college football game can attest, seeing the home team -- and even, sometimes, the visiting team -- bursting forth from the tunnel, ready for battle, can be a genuinely thrilling, hair-raising moment. But what of the players themselves? What is it like to be in that tunnel? What is it like to come racing out, into the light, the noise, to be on that field, surrounded by the charged, inimitable atmosphere of a sold-out, Saturday stadium in the fall ...?

Photo: Chris Graythen/Getty Images

Sep 11, 2010
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