25 Things To Watch This Season

Mean Green 93-98 · August 23, 2007

From Dennis Dodd at CBS Sportsline.com

12. Just plain streaking
First-year North Texas coach Todd Dodge has won his past 48 games as a head coach. All of them with the nation's preseason No. 1 high school program in 2007, Southlake (Texas) Carroll High School. Dodge's teams were 79-1 in their past 80 games. The only loss was in the 2003 state championship game. Dodge's first game as a I-A head coach is at Oklahoma on Sept. 1. Look out Sooners?

18. FBS***s
Please join me in an honorable and noble quest. Defy the NCAA. It is still trying to ram down our throats that Division I-A has been renamed the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS).
It will now and always be I-A in this space, if only because the change was made because the I-AAs were upset at the "image" being portrayed. So now the Nicholls States of the world are in the Football Championship Subdivision.
As if that's going to be the marketing cure for I-AA drawing an average of 8,916 per game. I spit in your general direction, politically correctors.
I-AA was created by the NCAA in the 1970s as a way of promoting the small schools. At the time, they were even promised more television coverage. So don't ask us, NCAA, to clean up your mess with a sanitized, corporate label for second-tier football.
Using the current logic, humans are Carbon-Based Life Forms; janitors are Sanitation Engineers and that teenager pouring you coffee at the local Starbucks with a ring in her lip is a Caffeine Facilitator.
Can't wait until the oblong, leather object is propelled into the atmosphere marking the first contest of the season.
"Are ya ready for some football?" sounds so much better.

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