'The Beast' saves the Red Elephants

First let's get this cleared up: games are not won and lost by one player. Football's just not that kind of sport. For any measure of success, 11 separate pieces must form one cohesive force.

Holloway: This rivalry has exactly what it needs

Gainesville-North Hall doesn't have many things typically associated with great rivalries.

HS football: Poll talk, Week 4

Holloway: Thankfully, talent gap is shrinking

After a three-year stretch in which it nearly choked the competitive life out of high school football in Northeast Georgia, the era of the blowout has ended.

HS football: Poll talk, Week 3

Holloway: Better days ahead for Big Red

It's going to get easier. Repeat after me.

HS football: Poll talk, Week 2

Gainesville grad Tai-ler Jones to start for Notre Dame

Holloway: Even in football, change can be good

Change isn't easy. People tend to like things the way they are, or least prefer them to the great, wide unknown. With the familiar, at least one knows what to expect. And what's familiar is also sacred when you're talking about football.

High school football: Poll talk, Week 1

Holloway: Jackets' success hinges on Nesbitt

For two preseasons, all Paul Johnson heard were questions.

Holloway: Expect more of the same at the top of SEC East

I've been putting off making these picks.

SEC West predictions: 'Bama the frontrunner

The preseason magazines hit the shelves nearly two months ago. Single game tickets are about to go on sale. And at SEC media days, Nick Saban is bellowing from his Birmingham pulpit about pimps and agents and other assorted scum.

Live video from SEC Media days

Holloway: Braves don't back down

Can a team just a smidgen over .500 also seem destined for great things?