Week 4 + Conferences

               Week 4 begins with a blowout as the start of conference play between some power-house football teams.  The BIG 12 has two top 10 teams squaring off in the desert on Saturday afternoon as #7 Oklahoma State travels to #8 Texas A+M.  There has been a lot of talk surrounding the Big 12 after so many teams left the conference this past summer and with the future of the conference unknown it’s a thrill to start of conference play with a bang. Stanley and I have already designated it as the game to watch at 3:30.

                The SEC opens conference play with #14 Arkansas traveling to #3 Alabama. This game on at 3:30 will show off the speed that the SEC holds, and there tradition of dominating out of conference teams. But, keep an eye on #2LSU traveling to #16 West Virginia in a game filled with blue and gold. This night game will be determined through special teams because both teams are able to put points on the scoreboard but there lies question marks in each team’s defense.  Although Les Miles will be coaching in a hostile environment, there isn’t a doubt in the great Stanley’s mind that LSU should not get the win.

                 Stanley and I have our Saturday all planned out with some great college football games. One topic that is just hard to break away from is the fact that every conference is changing teams. This past weekend the University of Pittsburgh and Syracuse University each signed a letter saying they want to leave the Big East. Okay, now I know that the Big East has not been the most successful conference in football for since Donovan McNabb went to Syracuse in the last 1990’s. But, COME ON! You want to be the team to beat in the Big East instead of West Virginia or Cincinnati, why don’t you get your players motivated and play some hard core football and win some non-conference games and make some noise in the bowls instead of being the laughing stock of the BCS.  I can understand why some schools are wanting to leave there conference just because the competition is tough and they haven’t been able to be successful or they want to leave just because the location of their college compared to the other conferences.  To be completely honest the way the conferences were set-up before the summer of 2011 were fine and should have remained the same. I don’t have a problem with Nebraska entering the Big 10, or Colorado moving to the Pac 12 so that teams that deserve to be in an automatic qualifier conference like Boise State and TCU could make a move into larger conferences. It just seems that since one team has made the transition to a new conference that every other team wants to jump on the “bag wagon” and follow what others are doing. The way the teams are set-up in each conference should not be about how much money the team can make through endorsements or about television programs, it should be about COLLEGE FOOTBALL.