Paul Smith covers the Big Ten, Notre Dame and the rest of the national college football scene. The following is an archive of past columns:

2003 09.02.03 »  Big Ten Preview: Maurice Who? Defense leads OSU

2001 12.22.01 »  Notre Dame’s Making a List and Checking It Twice 12.14.01 »  Who’s Next for Notre Dame? 12.14.01 »  O’Leary Quits After Lies Are Revealed 12.08.01 »  Luck of the Irish Belongs to George O’Leary 12.02.01 »  Davie Officially Fired by Notre Dame 12.01.01 »  Exclusive: Bob Davie a Done Deal 11.24.01 »  The Team Paterno Turnaround 11.17.01 »  The Most Rancorous of Rivalries Turns 95 11.10.01 »  Champaign Not Sweet for Penn State 11.03.01 »  Big Ten’s Flip Flops, Conference Calls 10.27.01 »  Irish Faithful Wait for Davie’s Departure 10.21.01 »  General Paterno Keeps Them Laughing 10.17.01 »  Will It Be Michigan and the ‘Little Ten’? 09.28.01 »  Across America, Sports is Secondary 08.17.01 »  Northwestern’s Roller-Coaster Could Stop, Atop the Big Ten

2000 11.16.00 »  The Boston College-Notre Dame Rivalry Heats Up in South Bend 11.11.00 »  Looking Ahead, and Back In a Crazy College Year 11.04.00 »  You Know You’ve Done a Couple of Life’s Laps... 10.28.00 »  College Football’s Logical Explanations 10.18.00 »  Bucking The Trend of Winning Championships 10.11.00 »  Northwestern No Longer the ‘Mildcats’ 09.23.00 »  The Ups and Downs of College Football Saturdays 09.18.00 »  Last-Second Field Goal Gives Edge to Irish 09.14.00 »  Knightmarish Weekend in Bloomington 09.10.00 »  The Red Shirts Are Coming, Turning the Old Grads Red 09.02.00 »  Davie Handles the Heat With Nebraska Next 09.01.00 »  Avoiding the Obvious Big Ten Pick [Wisconsin] 08.27.00 »  Henson Injury Could Hurt Wolverines Hopes 08.24.00 »  Purdue Hopes to Breeze Along With Brees to Big Ten Title 08.15.00 »  Michigan Has the Best Arm in the Big Ten