What is this? A Friday post from your friends at TOUTS? It must be a holiday weekend or something.
With college football starting and the NFL less than a week away, I thought I’d get everyone caught up with what is going on at TOUTS.
College Football preview: Unfortunately I’m not incredibly educated when it comes to the college brand of football, so I’m going to make this preview short and sweet. Here are five things you probably already know about NCAA football, but I feel obligated to write.
1. USC will be good.
Here’s a shocker, a school that is located in Southern California, where the girls are hot and the classes are easy, has a good football team. Do you think Pete Carroll starts off every day thanking God that he fell into such a perfect job? He should, USC seems to have 10-20 NFL ready players on it’s roster at all times. Hell, I could coach that team to a Pac-10 title every year. I hear their starting QB, Mark Sanchez dislocated his knee-cap, I would say that it sucks to be him, but if I’ve learned anything about USC quarterbacks it’s that they don’t deserve our pity.
Damn you USC Quarterbacks!
2. Tim Tebow will not win the Heisman again.
Chad is a huge Florida Gators fan, which means I like to rag on the Gators any chance I get. And there is no bigger target to go after on Florida’s campus than Gator’s QB Tim Tebow. I don’t even know where to start when it comes to this guy? ESPN usually has to spend about ten minutes on Tebow any time they talk about college football, it’s usually right around the time they have to put Lou Holtz down for his afternoon nap. Then there are the so-called “Tebowisms” that always seem to find their way into my e-mail inbox (I’m looking at you Chad). Listen, it wasn’t funny when they were talking about Chuck Norris, and it’s not funny now! By all accounts Tebow is about the nicest guy you can run into on the street, he is always humble on TV, and even goes on missionary trips during his off-time. It’s the attention that the boo-yahs of the world put on him that makes me want to club the guys’ knee.
As for repeating as the Heisman trophy winner, I highly doubt that will happen. The last time someone repeated as a Heisman trophy winner was Archie Griffin in 1974 and 1975. You also have to take into account that Florida has to play in the unbelievably stacked SEC conference. Have fun having to play LSU and Georgie within a three week span.
Part of me feels bad for Tebow because he’s not probably not going to make it in the NFL. Urban Meyer likes to have QB’s that can run a spread offense, case-in-point, Alex Smith. While college defenses might be suspect to the spread offense, pro defenses will destroy a QB who tries to roll out of the pocket on a consistent basis. Even though Tebow has a rocket arm, he is just not well suited for the pro game. On the bright side he does get to spend a lot of quality time with Erin Andrews! I’m not sure if that makes me like him more, or despise him.
3. Illinois will go back to being bad this year, thus setting everything right in the universe.
The Illini shocked the college football world last year when they upset then number one Ohio State, and carried that momentum into a BCS Bowl game. This year they are without the services of their stud RB, the rookie Pittsburgh Steeler running back Rashard Mendenhall. Without Mendehall there to pound on opposing defenses it’s going to be much more difficult for Juice Williams to run free. I really don’t have much more to say about the Illini. They have to play sixth ranked Missouri tomorrow to kick off their season, and all signs point to a crushing loss. As someone who had to deal with a bunch of bandwagon Illinois fans last year, it will be nice to see things return to the status quo.
4. Lou Holtz is a tool.
(Self-Explanatory)
5. The BCS is still a crock of shit.
There are those who say that the BCS makes every game of the season more important in college football than any other popular sport we have. That may be true, but is it really worth the trade-off of ruining the selection of our national champion twice in the last five years? Why the powers-that-be haven’t incorporated some kind of playoff system by now is something I will never understand. March Madness is one of the greatest times in a sports year, and it brings in millions of dollars for the NCAA and its sponsors, how hard would it be to have at least an eight game playoff in football? You could still have your (insert terrible Bowl Game name here) for the teams that don’t make the playoffs, and you could have Tostitos, Nokia, etc. rotate which week of the playoffs they get to sponsor.
Some say that a playoff system would interrupt students studies around finals time. Are you kidding me? Have of the student athletes at these power house colleges have other people doing their school work, and the other half are doing work that your typical fifth grader could handle. I’m talking about an eight team playoff, that’s three games, there is usually at least a months break between the end of the season and the bowl games, just slap the playoffs onto the end of the season, keep other bowl games where they are, and your problem is solved. Of course this will never happen because there is no justice in this world.
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Alright, enough with college football, let’s talk about the real deal. My anticipation for this NFL season couldn’t be any higher. Next week I have both of my fantasy football drafts on Wed, and come Thursday night we will all be rescued from this horrible sports drought.
To spice things up for this NFL season Chad and I are going to have a competition to see who’s better at picking games against the spread. The deal is that the person that get’s the least amount of picks right has to buy a jersey of the other person’s choice, then where that jersey twice; once with the other person present, and once while he is out on a normal day. We did something like this for March Madness and this is what happened…
That’s it for me for this weekend, unless I feel compelled to write about any of the college games this weekend. Enjoy your Labor Day weekend everyone!
