This essay might be a bit impenetrable for beginners to football, but for Xs-and-Os devotees, you really can’t beat Brown’s work here. The Air Raid is the dominant offensive philosophy of this era of college football, and it shows that it’s also one of Brown’s real passions. He’s been writing on the subject since I started reading him in 2008, and this really feels like the capstone of the process.

In short: essential reading for college football fans, especially those of you who want to learn more about the syntax, strategy, and history of the game as it stands today.