Jake Trotter is a senior writer at ESPN. Trotter covers college football. He also writes about other college sports, including men's and women's basketball. Trotter resides in the Cleveland area with ...

The Gophers have gone to the Inverted Wishbone on offense just as much as everyone's favorite Golden-I formation. What is it, and how can it help the Gophers succeed? Last December in the Meineke Car ...

As the college football season looms on the horizon, SEC fans can delve into the remarkable story of how the triple-option offense rescued three of college football's biggest brand names—Texas, ...

Sometimes you write about something and that's that. Then there are times when you write about something and it takes on a life of its own, to the point where you need to circle back and do a ...

While no one was exactly laughing in the press box at the new offense the Texas Longhorns had just rolled out against Houston on Sept. 21, 1968, there was lots of curious chatter. It was just ...

Football fans who missed the premiere of “The Wishbone Boys” documentary last fall in Tuscaloosa can now have a copy of their own. The 62-minute film, directed and produced by actor-turned-filmmaker ...

Emory Bellard, a former Texas A&M and Mississippi State coach credited with developing the wishbone offense when he was an assistant at Texas, died Thursday. He was 83. Cathy Capps, director of the ...

NOTE: Saturday night at the Bama Theatre in Tuscaloosa dozens of former Alabama football players from the wishbone era of Crimson Tide football, 1971-82, will be on hand for the premier of the ...

Dave Wilson is a college football reporter. He previously worked at The Dallas Morning News, San Diego Union-Tribune and Las Vegas Sun. Steve Worster, a two-time All-American at Texas and the bruising ...

Texas' iconic Wishbone offense, at 50, still influential in college football Texas coach Darrell Royal diagrams the Wishbone formation, which used a fullback and two halfbacks behind the quarterback, ...

From left, James Street, Chris Gilbert, Steve Worster and Ted Koy made the Wishbone formation work. Emory Bellard, at Royal's urging, taught the Wishbone to Barry Switzer, and Oklahoma became one of ...