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5 best college football books to help fill your sports void

By Nate Williamson

Ole Miss head coach Ed Orgeron hugs linebacker Patrick Willis while the team accepts the Egg Bowl trophy after defeating Mississippi State at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium in Oxford, Mississippi on Saturday, November 25, 2006. (Photo by Matthew Sharpe/WireImage)
Ole Miss head coach Ed Orgeron hugs linebacker Patrick Willis while the team accepts the Egg Bowl trophy after defeating Mississippi State at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium in Oxford, Mississippi on Saturday, November 25, 2006. (Photo by Matthew Sharpe/WireImage) /
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Meat Market Bruce Feldman
Ed Orgeron of the Mississippi Rebels applauds (Photo by Al Messerschmidt/Getty Images) /

The Meat Market/The QB  by Bruce Feldman

We kick our list off with a duo of books written by author and Fox Sports analyst and The Athletic columnist Bruce Feldman.

The first book on our list, Meat Market: Inside the Smash-Mouth World of College Football Recruiting, is probably one of the most intriguing and educational reads you’ll find on college football.

It’s received high praise from the likes of Paul Finebaum, Pete Carroll and more. The book follows Ed Orgeron, recruiting legend and now head coach of the LSU Tigers, in an account of the year leading up to National Signing Day in 2007, bringing in a new recruiting class to Ole Miss.

It’s packed with real, informational confessions and some fascinating off-field antics—and it’ll tell you a lot about the recruiting side of college football.

Feldman’s second book in this combo comes in a more on-field style. In The QB: The Making of Modern Quarterbacks, Feldman chronicles the story behind the meteoric rise of quarterbacks and the gurus who are talented at training and producing them.

The story, in specific, follows Johnny Manziel, with Feldman gaining unique access to “Johnny Football”, famed “quarterback whisperer” George Whitfield, and others as he explores the changing dynamic of quarterbacks, and the secret world of developing the world’s new standard of fast, mobile quarterbacks.

Overall, Feldman’s work varies but provides copious details and inside information, no matter the subject, getting straight-from-the-source information from guys like Orgeron and Manziel. You’ll learn a lot about the inner-workings and behind-the-scenes action of the game of football, and his writings sit as a great start to our list of great college football books.

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