The Spread A Sporting Man's Guide To College Football

October, 1983

"The Race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong," Damon Runyon wrote, "but that's the way to bet." Runyon could have been alluding to college football during the past decade. The meek may inherit the earth, but in the college game, the weak don't cover the spread. The wars will always be won by those who can put the biggest, quickest and most talented youngsters into pads and helmets.Although the point spread is supposed to be the great equalizer--a handica...