The oligarchs who run college football met this week to begin to perhaps decide the future of the sport.
How to maximize revenue. Especially for the oligarchiest among them, Big Ten, SEC and that school Paul Hornung attended.
They met virtually. Though the meeting was originally set for the new Four Seasons Resort at Del Boca Vista. Out of frugality, I suppose.
Especially after the ESPN crew threw in a new wrinkle, i.e. a 20 school CFP.
Nothing happened. Table collapsed because of weight of all proposals.
Surprise, surprise.
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Before fully investing our attention in the approaching — though not as rapidly as we’d like — season, there are a couple of matters where we must look to the past.
There’s a summer filler article at one of the sports sites, where they take a crack at listing each P4 program’s greatest villain.
Serial needler Steve Spurrier’s name appears several times.
The name listed for U of L: Jeremy Ito.
Uh, okay. I guess.
He’s the Rutgers placekicker who 86ed the ’06 third-ranked Cards’ chances to play for the crown, when he drilled a second chance three pointer at the gun.
I talk a lot of Cardinals pigskin with a lot of folks. Truly cannot remember Ito’s name ever being mentioned.
Now that UConn punt returner — whatever his name is — who called for a fair catch then returned it for a TD. Him we don’t like.
We’d also like a word with the zebra standing right there, who didn’t call it back. That’s some villainosity.
Not sure whom I’d name?
Though Bill Belichick’s OC comes to mind.
That would be phoenixesque Bobby Petrino.
Who fucked over U of L twice.
Feel free to way in with your choice in the Comments section below.
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The other matter to be decided before we commence contemplating Week 0 battle, Jacksonville State vs. North Dakota (5:30 CBSSN), is just who was national champion in . . .
. . . 1960.
It’s a thing. Really.
Ya know, sixty six years is long enough to not have some definitive answer.
Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) has filed for a Resolution to declare the Missouri Tigers that year’s Champion.
Join Sherman, Mr. Peabody and me in the WABAC Machine to assess the situation.
That’s when it was all human polls. AP writers. UP “coaches”. And math dude Dr. Litkenhouse. OK, he used arithmetic.
The first two named 8-2 Minnesota, even though the Golden Gophers fell in the Rose Bowl to 10-1 Washington. Lit named 8-1 Iowa in Forest Evashevski’s final season on the sideline.
The basis for Sen Schmitt’s claim.
Mizzou won every game, was Big 8 champ and bested Navy in the Orange Bowl. Oh, except for the little matter of that 7-23 defeat on the gridiron at the hands of rival Kansas.
But it turned out that the Jayhawks competed with an ineligible transfer from TCU, who happened to cross the goal line twice in the eventual league-mandated forfeit.
Feel free to weigh in with your pick in the Comments section below.
We’re loathe to move ahead with 2026 until we have resolution, correct?
— c d kaplan
