The Holy Game
It has been said that college football is a religion, and Saturday is its High Holy Day. So I was not surprised when I found myself at synagogue in Knoxville in September on Kol Nidre, the Friday evening start of Yom Kippur—the most solemn day of the Jewish year—and the rabbi asked who I favored in the next day’s Georgia-Tennessee game.
Of course he did. If college football is America’s lay religion, the South is its ecumenically evangelical center. Nowhere is
