college-football
It wasn’t long ago that the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) was a force to be considered when playing college football. Florida State ruled the east coast, and the other eight programs could do very little to knock the Seminoles from their perch. Georgia Tech, North Carolina, Maryland, Clemson, and NC State all had their “great” days, but the Seminoles were too dominant.
Welcome to Huskerville Hero where every week throughout the season I will break down the Nebraska game and announce that week’s Huskerville Hero.
Now let’s talk about how they will do this season and who is the preseason Huskerville Hero.
I missed this story. Completely. Had no idea about it. And in some way, I’m glad I did. It’s just so inconceivable, so inhuman that I would rather not even know about it.
And until now, I did not know about it, living in permanent ignorance. Not on this planet, never on this planet.
Mention the Boston College Eagles in relation to the college football world, and one thing comes to mind. Sports fans from all around will make reference to the 1984 game against the Miami Hurricanes. You know the story. The Eagles needed a touchdown to win the game. A few seconds left on the clock. Flutie takes the snap, scrambles around, and tosses a very long pass into the end zone. Some guy (Gerard Phelan for you con-college football experts) caught the ball on what would be later labeled a “Hail Mary” pass. The BC Eagles stunned the Miami Hurricanes 47 – 45. Fans, and not just the ones from Chestnut Hill, will mention this game as one of the best finishes of all time. But wait, Boston College has established some college football prominence over the last few years.
Most people think that college football should implement some form of a playoff system.
This is the argument for why college football should leave the BCS exactly the way it is.
Examples of student-athletes in college sports especially in college football is fading. Sure there are some good student-athletes that represent their university and themselves appropriately. But now more than ever, the players that receive all the media hype and attention are the ones that most likely find themself in trouble. Schools that usually maintain great reputation have been dealing with troubling players that don’t care to commit themselves to their team nor their universities. It’s not a matter of having fun with your friends or getting a little crazy. It’s a matter of so called “student-athletes” committing serious crimes and doing the most idiotic acts that you wouldn’t imagine a person of that age doing.
If there’s anyone with bigger problems in the world of college sports than Penn State’s Joe Paterno, then we’d like him or her to put their hand up.
This is a true story. The names of the teams, the place and date have been intentionally left out to preclude the possibility of our team trophy being taken away because of the negligible contribution of two old men.
Ohio State dropped another BCS Championship Game this week–but Will Burge says that doesn’t mean the Buckeyes don’t have a dynasty in the works.
There it was. The Motor City Bowl was on and I was glued to my TV hoping that Central Michigan of the Mid-American Conference would manage just one more score. After they did and it was all tied up, I continued to watch as Purdue of the Big Ten drove for one last time and won on a late field goal. The following day it was Texas -vs- Arizona State and then I couldn’t wait until the next day when Maryland was due to play Oregon State and two other games were to take place.
I have no loyalty to any of these teams. I don’t even follow very many of their conferences. Yet here I was following all the results and enjoying all the trappings of the yearly bowl season.