Comments on College Football

Pac 12 Scheduling Does Matter

Oregon is a big 30+ point favorite to beat UCLA in the first Pac 12 Championship game. One has to wonder was it all worth it to have one more Friday night game on national TV that hundreds are going to watch. This is the first year of the Pac 12 unbalanced schedule similar to major league baseball. Each year teams in the south plays four of the six universities in the north. This season USC who was ineligible played the toughest conference schedule with their opponents having an overall record of 25-11 followed closely by Arizona 24-12 and Colorado 23-13. The three teams in contention to represent the south in the championship game until the last week of the season UCLA (17-19), Utah (14-22) and ASU (17-19) had the weakest conference schedules.

The Year of the Uniform Changes

If you would take a vote of the nation Maryland would probably be voted the worst college uniforms of the year mixing the colors of their state with the school colors. My vote however goes to Michigan State who wore the most horrible green colors to go with ugly gold helmets in their traditional game against Michigan. Even though my wife is an MSU grad we had a tough time cheering for the Spartans. The Wolverines wore white uniforms that day with maze and blue shoulder colors which got my vote for the best alternate uniform of the year. Harvey Hyde former head coach at UNLV and football commentator in the LA area thought that the uniforms Stanford wore against Notre Dame looked like Halloween costumes.

You never know what combination of colors Oregon is going to wear each week. The number style on their uniforms look like they belong on European soccer jerseys not on college football players who should wear large block numbers that are easy to read.

Most of the new style uniforms were designed by Nike which makes one think that I had better buy New Balance shoes the next time.

BCS

Garbage in garbage out. . .

Quote of the Year

Lou Holtz commenting on the fact that many players commit stupid unnecessary roughing penalties that hurt their team said, "Don't you understand, today is about me, not the team!"

The Solution

Football helmets were designed as a protection not a weapon which is so common today with head to head contact being a major concern in both professional and college football. This headache can be solved very easily by returning to leather helmets such as the one worn by 'The Heisman'.

Homer Sweeney