College Football Week 6

After making an appearance last year, we bring back the Washington State Dance Team. Someone should show them some love as they have little to cheer for in the far Northwest.

Tebow-NO
We should feel thankful that this is Tim Tebow's last year as a college quarterback. The media attention he has garnered since winning the Heisman Trophy has been over the top, but what was witnessed a week ago in preparation for LSU has been excessive. My guess is Florida Head Coach Urban Meyer played into the media's hands and kept them questioning Tebow's status. I believe Meyer knew early in the week as to his status, but kept all those who were covering the Gators, as well as the LSU Tigers guessing. The Man Crush that everyone has on him needs to come to an end.

Upside Down MAC
A year ago the Mid-American Conference garnered much attention for a number of teams with undefeated records. Among those at the top were Buffalo and Ball State. How much difference a year makes. The 2008 MAC Champ Bulls, are 0-2 in conference with only two overall wins. The regular season undefeated Cardinals are winless through six in 2009.

Pick Your Homecoming Opponents Carefully
This year the Iowa Hawkeyes scheduled mighty Michigan as their Homecoming opponent. Often schools around the country pick teams they have a good chance of defeating. However there are other reasons to schedule teams other than those rich in history. In the past Iowa has scheduled Indiana, Northwestern and Purdue. Each look as if it may be an easy win, but that shouldn't be the only criteria. Homecoming should also be a way to help sell tickets to a game which may be a hard sell. Michigan is not one of those teams. Demand was high in Iowa City a week ago causing scalpers to ask for higher prices than normal. Also tickets that normally could be sold to the general public were now being allotted for members of the Alumni Band and other University dignitaries that have a greater interest in academic research rather than the Wolverines. In 2010 Iowa has already tabbed Penn State as the Homecoming opponent. Get your tickets early as they will be harder to come by.

World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party...

...may be moving Indoors? How can you stage the "World's Largest OUTDOOR Cocktail Party in the Georgia Dome? Having never been to one of the games I can't imagine moving a storied SEC tradition inside. The stadium is already half Red and half Orange so there is no home field advantage. Keep it outside.

College Football Wrap-Up

A quick look back at the bowl season thanks to the USC Song Girls.

Florida head coach, Urban Meyer defended his former school, Utah and deemed them as a non-BCS school who is very much BCS quality. He mentioned the facilities are better than some BCS schools (Iowa), talent is better than some BCS schools (Indiana) and beat all BCS schools that came their way.

Congrats to the Pac 10. They went undefeated in all of their bowl games. A conference that was so maligned early defended themselves well into the post-season.

Big 10 lived up to expectations. Did many expect Penn State to beat USC in the Rose Bowl? Who had any faith in the Golden Gophers as they played Kansas? Wisconsin? Northwestern? Ohio State? Iowa played the best of any of the conference schools, but they did play a bad South Carolina team. Had the Hawkeyes played a game higher in the bowl line-up (Georgia, Cap One) the Big Ten may have increased their number of wins to 2. Ohio State hung with Texas longer than I thought.

The most exciting action of the day in El Paso may have been the world record set by Villiage People and the 41,000+ fans who performed "YMCA." Sure beat the 3-0 win by Oregon State.

Finally, many northerners have long said that if any southern school had to play for the title in the colder climate, the outcome would change. Consider this, six of the last six BCS title winners have come from warmer climates and three of those have played in their home state. Perhaps talent wants to stay close to home, but when was the last time Florida, LSU, or Alabama played a regular season game at a Big 10 or Big 12 school?

Check out this link ranking the Big 10 in 2009... http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/college/chi-10-big-10-football,0,3555209.story