A Summertime Surprise

I was glad to wake up this morning and see some college football news. Granted, it was a bunch of silliness and grandstanding by second tier programs but a football fanatic is well into the DTs this time of year and you take any port in a storm.

Colorado headed to the Pac-10? How pleasant. They may take the Texas delegation with them? Isn't that special? Looks like 16 programs? Maybe between all of them, they'll field at least one legitimate team. I'm really hoping they at least change their name to the Pac-16 instead of leaving us wondering which ones don't count even in their eyes like their Rose Bowl cohorts in the Midwest.

Speaking of the conference that doesn't count so well....

So the Cornhuskers are bound for the Big 10...11...10...whatever. Bo Pelini coached in the SEC. Yeah, he's probably going to own that conference. What with powerhouses like Northwestern and Illinois running around up there? What a joke.

So now there is talk of championship games for these realigned conferences. Welcome to the 1990's, y'all. People are even wringing their hands asking if the Pac-however-many should have an additional BCS automatic bid. They already had one which was at least three too many. I mean really, you played nobody all year, why break that trend in January?

Then there is the news that The Diploma Mill of Southern California has been slapped with a 2-year post season ban and 4 years of probation for something that happened when their current players were in middle school. I don't care for the over-rated Trojan program and usually don't feel sorry for them but punishing these kids for the transgressions of a multi-millionaire NFL player is really kind of sad. But Lane Kiffin has to take it too, so maybe it's a wash. Lane, can we borrow your dad in Tampa for a few years while you aren't allowed to play big boy ball?

Anyway, all this shuffling around and the SEC will still be by far the superior conference in college football. A mid-tier SEC team will still be a championship favorite in any other conference in the nation. The ACC will still be a distant second that is still miles ahead of number three.

And regardless of all this rambling above and who pulls what moves it is apparent that troy is still way too chicken to show their faces in Jacksonville. The Pit may look a little different, but it is still the place Bama trojans go to get whupped.