College football 2013 running discussion thread

This happens to nearly every school who plays during the week on the road. Travel Wednesday, play Thursday, get home in wee hours of Friday.

For college hoops, yes, unless they are within a certain driving distance (maybe 200 miles or so?) during time that school is in session. Conference and NCAA tournaments, I'd be willing to give a pass.

Baseball's a little tougher because they play on Fridays, and for northern schools, they frequently have to fly south early in the season. But I'd like to see something reasonable.

Of course, for college hoops and football, that'd mean the schools and NCAA would have to grow a pair against the TV gods, which we know ain't happening. College sports is supposed to be like the Ivy League model, or at least, that's what we're all told.

 

George W. Bush did the coin toss for Texas Tech-SMU. Now both teams are invading Sul Ross State.

 

Michigan State and Western Michigan playing in a downpour in East Lansing. This CMU grad is disappointed it's only rain, as opposed to fire and brimstone.

EDIT: And now we have a lightning delay on a Friday night. Way to go, morons.

 

SMU-TTU be ugly.

 

You'd think Bill Snyder would have scheduling cupcakes down, but he made a rookie mistake. When scheduling an I-AA team you avoid the ones that are actually pretty good. ND State has beat an FBS team on the road each of the past three years and are tied with K-State at half. The Bison had opportunities to put more points on the board too.

 

YES! TD NDSU!!!!

 

So who votes for NDSU in next week's AP poll?

 

Take it from Penn State and Kansas State, even if the urge to put a statue of your geriatric coach is strong, wait.

 

Someone already has voted for them in the SportsJournalists.com preseason poll.

Kudos to the Bison.

 

NDSU is the two-time defending national FCS champions. They can play some ball.

But FCS has its own rankings, so I have no problem keeping the two divisions separate.

Getting sportswriters to vote on ranking teams has to be one of the dumbest ideas ever, right up there with Iran getting a nuclear weapon.

 

I won't put Snyder in with Paterno just yet. He's still pretty on top of it and we all knew Paterno was, well, a senile figurehead from about 2000 on...

A bad loss is a bad loss.

Now if Snyder is still coaching the purple in three or four years, I would agree.