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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! 😎
As long as you’re not drooling or grasping. Now, that would be creepy. But to pretend you’re not a man is not natural.
I agree. I never liked the BCS and that’s when I stopped paying too much attention. I don’t understand the pretense that the BCS does a better job of identifying a “national champion.” The conference bowls were a lot more fun.
The old bowl system was more interesting. All of this stuff is run by criminals.
For some of us, as we get older teenagers lose their appeal. As I said in my original post, that part is just not for me.
I also don’t see making a virtue out of the fact that college football didn’t have kneeling protests. By tradition the teams stay in the locker room during the anthem. If they had been on the field during the anthem last year, there would have been protests. College kids often love to be outraged about issues they only sort of get and not in a nuanced way. As it is, they continue to do what they’ve always done, and somehow that makes them patriotic.
Shame about the Nebraska game. What an anticlimactic start to the Frost era.
@scottwilmot I should have noted that despite the 1916 lopsided victory by Ohio State over Oberlin, Oberlin is the last (so far) in-state team to win over Ohio State. 7-6 in 1921.
Nice. We have a claim to fame.
Shout it to the rooftops. Why not?
I agree. Why is it so important to have a national champion?
So the national championship title can be later stripped after the rampant cheating is uncovered.
It concentrates power and TV money in the big five conferences or whatever they call it. It’s outrageous. (colloquialism) banana republic stuff. Congress does nothing. Who “owns” the NCAA by the way?
Nick Sabin was whining about what is going to happen to the little bowls and all the teams that aren’t in the big five last winter. Disgusting. Boring.
I’ve heard good explanations that having such a small playoff is just wrong wrong wrong, and picking 16 isn’t going to help.
Haha! Poor UT. Y’all will get back there one day. Hang tough. It’s hard, I know. N.C. State is in the same division as Clem(p)son.
“It was a dark and stormy night…”
Well, as long as there’s a reason.
Staring would be creepy. Pursuing would simply be inappropriate for your position. But I will not stand for the proposition that it’s creepy for any adult to admire the beauty of another adult, or God firbid, even feel and enjoy attraction.