Last night, as Virginia Tech was turning Boise State’s 17-0 lead into a game that would come down to the final minute, ESPN put up a graphic of the current AP top ten. “If the Hokies come back,” Brent Musberger said, “then TCU becomes the new darling of the anti-BCS crowd.” This is the conventional [...]
Archive for September, 2010
6 Sep
Monday Medley
What we read while surviving Hurricane Earl… The New York Times managed to write about “Fuck You” by Cee Lo Green without ever actually using the phrase. It was a feat both mocked and praised by the less refined media. Meanwhile, Green himself released the official video for the crudely named song, to replace the [...]
4 Sep
Every Game Counts…Kinda, Sorta, Not Really
College football has long billed itself as the sport of the regular season. Opponents of a playoff will always cite, as the main reason for the status quo, that every game counts, and that this is what makes college football unique. But how many games actually do count? One of the points I made in [...]
