college-football
by Trevor Freeman
Tailgate parties. “The Swamp”. Pabst Blue Ribbon. Camp Randall. “Whoa Nellie”. Saturday afternoon. Buffalo Wings. Flutie to Phelan. Boise State. It has been eight months, but ladies and gentlemen……..college football season has arrived. With that, it is time for us to take our annual look. Let’s begin our Top 25 in the land of sun, sports cars and hot cheerleaders…….
A breakdown of finishes of all FBS conferences!
With all the talk of the Plus-1 format being set up to determine college football’s National Champion, I thought I would try a different idea. This idea has almost no chance of working, since the Pac-10 and Big Ten conference commissioners have already stated that they will pull out of the Bowl Championship Series if the Plus-1 format or whatever number team playoff was implemented. My idea calls for all of the BCS conference champions and two wild card teams from non-BCS conferences to play it out for the title.
The Hall of Fame does not exist for people like Joe Paterno and Doug Flutie.
Yes, these people are great and outstanding and should be in the College Football Hall of Fame, but that isn’t the purpose.
I would know of Babe Ruth and Red Grange if I hadn’t seen their plaques at Cooperstown and Canton respectively. They don’t need to be memorialized.
Just something I wrote on the Virginia Tech shootings. I wish I had more of an intro, but it was hard enough writing this….
The Clash couldn’t figure it out, yet the answer seems crystal clear to me. Imagine, for a moment, that you are a 20 year old college student without a job who just happens to play a little football. One day, a man in a suit strolls up to you and says “Hey kid. I got a proposition for you. If I said that you could stop going to class, stop writing papers, stop taking exams and come play a game for me all day long, would you do it?” Then, before you can answer, he adds “Oh yeah, and I’ll give you $3 million a year to do it.” What would your answer be?
How do two teams with two losses finish ahead of Boise in the final rankings? The only logical culprits are our friends that developed the BCS several years ago.
After Troy Smith and the Ohio State Buckeyes lost to the Florida Gators Monday night, it all has come to me. Troy Smith will be mediocre in the Sunday league, at best. But that isn’t anything new for draft experts like Mel Kiper Jr.
Now that the NCAA football season is over, it’s time to take a final look at the AP “top 25” teams in the country. “Top 25” is in quotes because one must remember that this poll is a popularity contest and nothing more. Forget preseason rankings, and even rankings up to this point. We’ll examine each top team individually to see if their ranking is justified.
Mention Notre Dame football, and a few things come to mind. You either love them or hate them. They do not belong to a conference. They aren’t the team they used to be. The Irish have been through Bob Davie and Ty Willingham without the great success the Irish was once familiar with. In 2005, in walks the “offensive guru”, the man with five Super Bowl rings. Charlie Weis takes over the football program in South Bend. OK, now Notre Dame is headed for the national title within the first three to five years. Some publications thought he would have the Irish in the big game in his second year. Two completed seasons down. What has Weis done with the golden domers?