How a small school in the Virginia mountains slowly became college football’s most unlikely national title contender
- Posted on December 19, 2025
- By CNN
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How a small school in the Virginia mountains slowly became college football’s most unlikely national title contender
Upon arriving at the James Madison University campus in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains in 1999, Jeff Bourne spied a 12,500-seat football stadium on a campus that only started playing the sport a little more than 25 years earlier.
