It Begins

60-3 and both our arch-rivals suffer crushing defeats. Not a bad start to the 2005 season. That said...

I understand that the whole reason we started getting nationally televised games on days other than Saturday was so that mid-majors could get their share of the media coverage necessary for a high poll ranking. Fair enough. The Louisvilles, Boise States, and I guess Marshalls have done just that over the past few years. Good for them.

Still, someone needs to put a limit on this at some point. A GOOD Friday matchup between a couple of upstart teams is one thing, but SEC teams playing on not only Thursday but also Sunday (!) AND a huge, early season ACC matchup on a Monday, all in the same week?!?! This, my friends, is not what our forefathers envisioned.

Saturday. It is the definitive college football gameday. So you can't catch every single single game? That's half the fun! What other occasion warrents setting up multiple televesion sets, ordering a season long gameplan, and still flipping channels between plays to catch every bit of the action? That setup isn't detrimental to the scheduling scheme, it's one of its more entertaining aspects. It's what we get excited about and look forward to at week's end- ONE packed day of delicious college goodness.

Yet all the glory that is a Saturday Gameday is somehow diminished when during the first week of the season we are forced to watch a classic Florida in-state rivalry on that most hideous of days - Monday. Something is very, very wrong with this sad state of affairs. Stop the insanity! Give us back our FULL plate of Saturday goodness, and leave Sundays and Mondays to those other, passionless football players.

Still... it was a pretty good kickoff weekend, huh?

Addendum: the one redeeming factor of college football on a Monday was that they had Mush Mush doing the play by play. This offered a rare weekday opportunity to play the ultimate drinking game (pardon the link to a Sooner fan site, but they had the most comprehensive set of rules.) The only rule missing from that link is also my favorite: one drink for "over the miiiiiddllllle....," then bottoms up if he follows it with "GOT him!"

Yeah, I got to hear a couple of those, so things weren't a complete bust.