College Football Preview

While the rest of the major sports and the rest of the NCAA use playoffs or tournaments to decide the best teams a fair shot at playing for a title, College Football once returns to using a formula where Coaches who don't watch any other games, Computer Dorks who have never played the game, and select media members and other distinguished individuals who may or may not watch games, decide who is #1 and #2.

I could please the few people who read this blog with a preview of who plays for the National Championship this year, but in reality, I really don't care, because the winner of that game receives a trophy and the right to claim a National Championship, something that in reality doesn't exist (IT'S MYTHICAL PEOPLE).

So it appears that according to coaches who only watch game film of their team and their opponents, Alabama and Ohio State are the two best teams in the country. Awesome to predict that considering we are only about 1 week into fall camp and nobody has played any games. But, after all, rankings are needed to sell games to big time TV networks to pay money to the business errrrrrr non-profit organization that is College Football.

So while I'll cheer on Nebraska, and hope they do well this year, I won't fret if they finish #3 in the BCS come December 5th, because if they finish amongst a bunch of teams with 0 losses, or 1 loss, and if they win that last exhibition bowl game, I can claim a National Championship, just like anyone else.

Oh, yeah, speaking of Nebraska. The coaches decided they were the #9 team in the ranking to start the year. It is nice of the coaches to reward Nebraska with such a high ranking, especially in the top 10, considering Nebraska has not beat a team ranked in the top ten since 2001. Also, does nobody else outside the state of Nebraska realize that the team has no starting quarterback yet, and that Bo Pelini has made comments to the effect that no starting quarterback may be in place by the time September 4th rolls around? I mean, is there any scarier phrase than “Nebraska returns 10 starters on offense”? I mean, the same offense that scored 7 points and turned the ball over 8 times against Iowa State (at home)? The same offense that mustered 106 yards of total offense against Texas in the Big 12 title game? The same offense that seem to be inept more than half the year against teams not in the Sun Belt? And this team is #9? Uh ok.