Calkins: As Memphis prepares to play football this season (really!), the Liberty Bowl may be the perfect place
It will be a while before the Liberty Bowl is aspacked as it is above, where fans cheer on the Memphis Tigers against Ole Miss on Au. 31, 2019. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)
Geoff Calkins
Geoff Calkins has been chronicling Memphis and Memphis sports for more than two decades. He is host of "The Geoff Calkins Show" from 9-11 a.m. M-F on 92.9 FM. Calkins has been named the best sports columnist in the country five times by the Associated Press sports editors, but still figures his best columns are about the people who make Memphis what it is.
The Liberty Bowl has long been mocked as "too big" for modern times. But in this strangest of college football seasons, it may be the perfect place to spread out.
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