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Southern Fried Football:
History, Passion, and Glory of the Great Southern Game

By Tony Barnhart, Foreword by Keith Jackson

Contact: Josh Williams, Triumph Books, 312.939.3330, j.williams@triumphbooks.com

College football may captivate the country every fall, but in the South it is a way of life that lasts 365 days a year.  Explore this cultural phenomenon with a completely new edition of Southern Fried Football that provides a close-up look at the great players, great rivalries, great coaches, and great traditions that make college football in the South more than just a game.

Southern Fried Football takes a behind-the-scenes look at the 2007 college football season - one of the wildest and most unpredictable in the history of the sport.  It began with tiny Appalachian State going to Michigan and posting one of the biggest upsets in college football history and ended with LSU becoming the first team ever with two losses in the BCS national championship.  This book celebrates Southern college football at its finest with:

• Stories of regional rivalry - when Alabama and Auburn square off, families divide and marriages dissolve
• The grand traditions of the South's most celebrated dynasties - the Bourbon Barrel of the Kentucky-Indiana game, the Gator Bowl, and the cowbells of Mississippi State
• Profiles of the greatest players, teams, and coaches in Southern college football, from the 1898 Immortals of Kentucky to the young stars of today
• The real center of the action - the avid, flag-flying fans who bring their Southern passion for life to the grandstands every Saturday afternoon, but live Southern football seven days a week

Southern Fried Football is a devoted celebration of the people, places, and moments that makes college football in the South more than just a game or a show of school spirit.  South of the Mason-Dixon Line football becomes without question a passion as bold and as a heated as good barbecue.

About the Author:

Known as "Mr. College Football," Tony Barnhart is a college sports reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where he has won numerous journalism awards. In 1999 Barnhart was named the Georgia Sportswriter of the Year. He is a past president of the Atlantic Coast Sports Writers Association and the Football Writers Association of America. He is also the Georgia regional voting director for the Heisman Trophy and the John Wooden Award. He is a 1976 graduate of the Henry W. Grady School of Journalism at the University of Georgia.

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Hardbound ● $25.95 ● 8 1/8 x 9 1/8 ● 288 pages ● archival photos throughout ● ISBN: 978-1-60078-093-6 ● PUB DATE: August 2008