Week of 9/28

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10/2:

  • Three uniforms to check out this weekend: Air Force’s Red Tails uniform to honor the Tuskegee Airmen (WWII), Iowa State’s black out uniforms, Vanderbilt’s new helmet with the Nashville skyline. And for a bonus - we will throw in South Carolina’s all whites, which look sharp.

  • Perhaps the best Sun Belt game of the year has been postponed. Appalachian State is being cautious with the coronavirus, so they have pushed back (we hope) their game with Louisiana, which was to be played this upcoming Wednesday.

  • The Mountain West has released their schedule that is to begin in three weeks - except for Air Force getting a jump start this weekend against Navy. Not all teams will be playing eight league games, and there will be no divisional play. What I like best - we will get to see an outstanding game between Boise State and BYU!

10/1:

  • An article about the Wichita State plane crash fifty years ago tomorrow at ESPN.com brought tears to my eyes. Stories like this make me realize how much I love the game and admire those who play the game - and the families that move on from tragedies like this. Just amazing…

  • I still like my Games to Follow piece better than Amy Daughter’s Breaking Down the Weekly Football Schedule found at FBSchedules.com, but she was the inspiration behind my similar blog and she does a great job providing info on the games week in and week out.

9/30:

  • We have lost “The Battle for the Belt” - a version of a wrestling championship belt, for the time being as the Troy at South Alabama game has been temporarily been postponed because of COVID-19. There will be an attempt by the schools and the Sun Belt to reschedule the game if possible.

  • We have found what great lengths a school will go in order to practice for their upcoming season. San Jose State is unable to practice in their county, Santa Clara County, because local restrictions currently prevent practices of groups larger than 12. Therefore the Spartans have moved their practices 320 miles to the north to Humboldt State - a school that cut their football program in 2017.

9/29:

  • When Feliepe Franks went down with an injury against Kentucky last year, I thought that Kyle Trask had beginner’s luck to pull that game out. I thought that there was no way that the Gators could beat Auburn a few weeks later, but Trask again proved me wrong. Fast forward to this year and all the stories I have read about Kyle, and now I can honestly say I am very impressed with his abilities on the field and his beliefs/feelings as a person. This is hard for me to say since I am not a Gator fan at all, but I wish him all the best this year and I hope that he finds himself and his team in the CFB playoff.

  • K-State, with their win over the Sooners, has now opened the Big 12 Championship aspirations to probably half the conference. This upcoming weekend could be the biggest game Iowa State has ever played, and there is a long way to go, but after seeing both the Sooners and Longhorns struggle, there doesn’t seem to be much separation between five (or even six) teams.

9/28:

  • In scheduling/postponement news, North Carolina has found a replacement game for their cancelled game with Charlotte. The Tar Heels will now play Western Carolina on December 11th. Meanwhile, the Memphis-Houston game that was postponed, has now been rescheduled, and these teams will now play on December 5th. And in a piece of bad luck, the Georgia State game with Charlotte was canceled because coronavirus tests were incorrectly read as positive.

  • I’m not sure why all teams are now eligible for the AP Poll, or for that matter any Power Indexes - especially when some teams are more than a month away from playing their first game. Go ahead and plug teams in the Sunday before the start of the season, but no sooner - especially since more than half the teams have already played half their schedule (we hope!).