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College Football Is Back, Baby!
At long last, after nearly nine interminable months, my favorite time of year is at hand: college football season. Unlike the increasingly politically correct NFL, the American flag will be properly honored and politics will be sidelined for love of the game. And beautiful young women on the sidelines will vigorously cheer their schools on to victory. Truly, there’s no place I’d rather be this fall than at Jones Stadium in Lubbock, Texas, rooting for my Texas Tech Red Raiders as they take the field. Alas, I’ll have to make do with television.
So, what will transpire during the 2018 campaign? Will the Alabama Crimson Tide repeat as national champions, or will they be upended by such SEC rivals as the Georgia Bulldogs or the Auburn Tigers? Could the Clemson Tigers continue to dominate the Atlantic Coast Conference? Might the Oklahoma Sooners win a fourth consecutive Big 12 title, or will a dark horse like the TCU Horned Frogs knock them off? Could the Oregon Ducks (hey @thegreatadventure!) return to Pac-12 glory? And in light of Urban Meyer’s suspension, will the Ohio State Buckeyes continue their mastery of the Big Ten?
Regarding my Texas Tech Red Raiders, Kliff Kingsbury enters yet another season with a question mark over his head. Coach Bro saved his job with an upset win over the Texas Longhorns last November, but will another 6-6 record (plus throngs of adoring co-eds) be enough to save him this season?
And then there is the off-season tragedy that befell Mike Leach and the Washington State Cougars with quaterback Tyler Hilinski’s suicide. If anyone can help the team bounce back, though, it’s the Old Pirate.
But never despair, because there are always the sirens of the sidelines to cheer us up! 😎
Welcome back College football!
OSU v. OSU, 77-31
OSU = Ohio State University
OSU = Oregon State University.
I hope that clears things up!
I think the Oregon State defense can join the sieve club.
Right along with Texas Tech, sadly.
Why do you like the BCS? tia
Yes, but nobody had any expectations to the contrary. Ohio State, on the other hand…
Yeah, I expect some people are going to be getting yelled at this week.
Does the climb back to the top start now?
The last twenty years has felt like an eternity.
P.S. I miss the Big 8!!!
And the Irish will lose, like they almost always do. Sigh.
It’s peek Ricochet!
I miss all of the old setup, where the bowl games were tied to the conferences, and the conferences made sense geographically.
Dang it Lash, another year, and another dis of my Oberlin Yeomen.
Well, looking at the way the started, I’ll speak no more.
Carry on.
Good post by the way – keep up the good work – looking forward to the season.
I’m not surprised, chalk it up to that Mike Riley “magic.”
Um, because it is too tough to succeed in the Big 10?
Ah, the good old days. Ohio State’s 77 points this week was not a school record, because Ohio State beat Oberlin 128-0 in 1916.
You mean the Big 10 that has 14 teams, or the Big 12 that has 10 teams?
No, because the number in the name corresponded to the number of teams in the conference.
The BCS is boring and unfair. Theft.
Boise State> Nick Sabin
#vomit
While I have some sympathy for that, that day is now long gone.
Which is worse, years of just missing the title, (via Sooner (black) magic) or years of haplessness?
Downward sloping haplessness, clearly…starting with Solich day 1.
P.S. I also miss tear-away jerseys, great names from my childhood like Jarvis Redwine and I.M. Hipp, and the picture of Wonder Monds in the program:
P.P.S. Now, off to the local watch party…
So how about that Appalachian State effort, eh? Now I’ll be rooting for Richmond to compound UVA’s misery from March.
I was pulling for them! Actually, my impression of week 1 right now is that the Big 10 ain’t all that. Utah State took Mich St to the wire, Penn State had to go to OT to beat App St, and the Buckeyes allowed the Beavs to put up 31 on them. Wisconsin is the only one that even sort of took care of business.
Yeah, but so far, Purdue is the only Big Ten team that’s lost this week. Close doesn’t mean as much as the W in the end.
Enjoyed the nail-biter Penn State-App State game a lot. I’m checking in on Nebraska next.
The one thing I can’t get behind is ogling the co-ed cheerleaders. I mean, they’re students. Like my students. It’d be like ogling my students. I’m middle aged; that’s just creepy.
Glad to see Wazzu beat Wyoming earlier this afternoon, 41-19. They’ve been my backup team since they hired Mike Leach. I attended one of their games in Pullman back in 2016 when I was living in Spokane. Go Cougs!
But they are not your daughter and there is nothing wrong with admiration.
So middle aged professors admiring how their female students fill out a skimpy cheerleading uniform isn’t creepy? I think there are a lot parents of co-eds who would not agree.
ETA: Poor Nebraska. Bummer of an opening.
I, for one, just want to appreciate God’s gifts that Mike is sharing.
The previously ranked Texas Longhorns do not look like a good football team. Lost to team without a head coach, 100+ penalty yards, only three third down conversions, turnovers. Blame the weather?
Karma?
The BCS is no more, having been replaced by the College Football Playoff in 2014. I agree, though, that the current setup is sub-optimal. I prefer the glorious chaos that existed prior to 1992 and the Bowl Coalition (the forerunner to the BCS and CFP), with regional conferences and established, traditional bowl games with conference tie-ins.