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  The Price.     What it takes to Win in College Football’s Era of Chaos.     Armen Keteyian & John Talty.   As far as locating current books that cover the pulse of college football, Armen Keteyian’s The Price is about as precise of a match as one might read this year.     Keteyian, a well-known long-time author, writer, sideline reporter extraordinaire, has partnered up with John Talty, a noteworthy writer in the south, to form a book that really does go to great lengths trying to explain the chaos that is college football in these turbulent but intriguing times.       The book is very reminiscent of The System which was published in 2013 by the same author Armen Keteyian.    The system seemed to mostly explore random stories about players and some coaches making headways in college football at that time.     However, The Price discusses a range of topics including severa...

Men in White.    The Gutsy, Against-All-Odds Return of Penn State Football.    Chris Raymond. This is a book about the perseverance of a team that was put at a major disadvantage in the aftermath of a major University scandal.   Of course, we are talking about the Pennsylvania State University football program in this case.     Chris Raymond tells the story of how the program overcame plenty of obstacles just to field a team in 2012 and chronicles the progress over the next five seasons which ultimately culminated in a conference championship—against many odds as the subtitle of this book alludes.       Raymond, a current editor with Consumer Reports and a long-time writer over the last three decades for outlets such as ESPN, Esquire and GQ, explains the tale through the memories and emotions of former players, coaches, members of the media, mascots, fans and others connected with the university during that tumultuous per...