What we have learned - College Edition

Over the next two days, I am going to put up some random thoughts and instant indisputable facts that would make the guys from Around the Horn proud:

• Have you ever been surrounded by 60,000 people who wish it was 1995? I have, I went to the FSU / CU game on Saturday night. I never thought I would miss Hootie and the Blowfish but they really should have been on constant loop, maybe then we would have seen more than 2 touchdowns.
  • For the record, CU fans lived up to their reputations as being absolutely horrendous fans. They yell, scream, curse and know nothing about football (the guy behind me spent the second half complaining about the SEC refs that FSU brought with them, until 5 FSU fans finally pointed out to him that FSU is in the ACC).
  • For the record, part 2: Local sportswriters lived up to their reputation as well: forgoing all real analysis for pathetic local pandering. Mark Kiszla spent the days leading up to the game talking about how CU could beat ‘moldy and decaying’ FSU and Bobby  ‘dozing on the couch’ Bowden. Apparently, the week before he was too busy to watch CU get thumped by an Arizona State team not nearly as quick or talented as FSU. On Sunday, rather than admit to not knowing anything about college football, he instead focused on how 2^nd-year CU head coach Dan Hawkins is trying to build the program by playing big name schools – ignoring the fact that this was the second of a home-and-home series first played in 2003. If Kiszla can’t complain about an owner not spending enough money on the team, he is pretty much out of his league.
• Why are we still talking about Notre Dame at all? They have a worse record than Duke. If we are devoting half of every college football show to discussing a religious school’s third-rate football team, can we mix it up and talk about BYU every other week?
• I have fought it for as long as possible but it is pretty clear that the SEC is the toughest conference in the country. When a perennial also-ran knocks off the best team from everyone’s favorite up-and-coming conference, the Big East, there is no doubt left, despite Auburn’s best efforts.
  • I am not nearly as impressed with the UF win over Tennessee as the experts are. Did anyone think Tennessee would go into the Swamp and compete? If they can’t survive the tree-living hipsters in Berkeley how were they going to handle the crazy rednecks of Alachua county?
  • At least there will be no one arguing that the Big Ten has arrived this year.
• There are only 3 teams that matter in college football this year: USC, and the two teams that emerge from the October 6^th  UF/LSU and OU/Texas match-ups (my money is on Oklahoma and LSU for the record). Everyone else is just battling for those other BCS bowl bids that only really matter now to t-shirt makers.

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