New Year Thoughts

While watching Bowl Games on New Year’s Day, and perusing the web, I had a thought or two as we enter a new year and the 150th year of college football (of which I have been a fan for 47 years)…

  • There is no better bowl game than the Rose Bowl - especially when it is the original “Pac-12/Big Ten matchup)

  • Shame on Georgia, a team with a bright future, if they were disappointed to not be included in the playoff

  • Originally when the playoff was being discussed, I was for an eight team field, but I am now firmly in the camp of keeping it at four as every week during the regular season can be an eliminator game

  • You can’t tell me that the non-playoff games have no meaning - especially after seeing Iowa/Mississippi State, LSU/UCF, Ohio State/Washington, and Texas/Georgia

  • No matter how well a live mascot is trained or restrained - their behavior is still unpredictable and VERY exciting for the game

  • Lastly, we are only two days into the new year, and we have already lost two great people in college football - Team captain and Purdue super fan Tyler Trent and Johns Hopkins great head coach Jim Margraff.  They will be missed!