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Summary: Best guide on the market
Review: As a scout for an NFL team, I can tell you we use Blue Ribbon College Football Yearbook everyday. Blue Ribbon gives you everything you need to know and a little bit more.
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Summary: Simply the Best
Review: I don't even bother with the preseason magazine forecasts anymore. Blue Ribbon Football Yearbook is more accurate and detailed. I've been a fan of Blue Ribbon Basketball for years. Now BR Football has me hooked, too.
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Summary: The editor is incompetent. Don't waste your time or money!
Review: I picked this book up today and heard Chris Dortch interviewed by the local sports radio station. He was a total dolt who couldn't articulate any justification for their picks. For example, this review, which weights about 2 llbs, doesn't rank Oregon State in their Top 25. Maybe SI is getting ahead of themselves by putting OSU #1, but every reputable poll has them in the Top 20. When asked why the Beavers were completely overlooked, Dortch responded that they don't follow the Pac-10 closely enough and that they really liked USC.How can you be a reputable college football commentator and not follow the Pac-10 closely? Maybe they can just compile the media guides from 1990's Top 25 finishers. It'd be cheaper, and would be just as useful as this piece of junk!
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Summary: They get the details right!
Review: I saw a copy of this at a friend's office and had to get one of my own! Far more detailed than any of the annual sports magazine's college football issues, Blue Ribbon gives plenty of ink and detail to each of the major colleges. And as the saying goes the truth is in the details. Not just depth charts but a complete analysis of the team and coaching staff with strengths and weakness getting equal time. This will be beside me every Saturday during the college season. Now if someone could only make my team win!!
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Summary: The only resource worth your time
Review: Preseason magazines are a waste of the serious fan's time. Due to space limitations, magazines rarely give more than one page of analysis to any team. Due to editorial dullness that runs to the pandemic, even more rare is the magazine that provides insightful analysis. In the usual case, a team's profile reads as if has been culled from press releases, and coaches' spin is reported as news. Serious fans have long since given up on magazines, or turn to them only for want of something better. Blue Ribbon is for them. All 115 Division I-A teams are profiled, with each profile running several pages, analyzing schedule strength, the coaching staff, and every position. This book contains everything there is to be known about every major program. Its 384 pages work out to about a nickle per. It's the best bargain in football publishing, college or pro. Everything else is a waste of time.
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Summary: The only resource worth your time
Review: Skip whining about where your team ranks, nobody gives you the straight dope any better than these guys. If you want to learn more about the talent on each team, and the backstory on what's been going on with recruiting, coaching, who's going to play and why, you're gonna want this book.
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Summary: OUTSTANDING YEARBOOK!!!
Review: THIS IS BY FAR AND AWAY THE MOST DETAILED COLLEGE FOOTBALL PRESEASON REVIEW AND ANALYSIS!!! FORGET WASTING MONEY ON ALL THOSE OTHER "REVIEWS" WHERE REGIONAL JOURNALISTS MAKE PREDICTIONS BASED ON LAST YEARS RESULTS....CHRIS DORTCH HAS DONE ALL COLLEGE FOOTBALL FANS A GREAT SERVICE...IF YOU LOVE COLLEGE FOOTBALL AND FOLLOW ANY TEAM IN DIVISION 1-A, THIS IS YOUR BOOK.
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