AP Photo
In the shape-shifting world of college athletics, the eye can no longer be trusted. There is beauty, to be sure, but most of the beholders wear the realignment equivalent of beer goggles.
How else can you explain a sinking ship turning into a lifeboat overnight? Or a notorious bully and a benevolent benefactor becoming one and the same? Or one group's intolerable dysfunction looking like another's enviable harmony?
Thus is the state of the Big 12, and of Texas, these days. It wasn't long ago that the conference was known for buffoonery and its biggest school was everyone's villain, but things change. Now they sit in a position of power and riches, with the option to make even more while they play savior, if they choose.
Saturday's slate of college football games was slightly more entertaining than assembly instructions for an Ikea end-table. Lopsided matchups and sluggish frontrunners contributed to the feeling that this season has no plot,... more »
Florida State needs to beat Clemson. For Bobby Bowden, for the ACC, for college football, for its own peace of mind. Yes, Florida State needs to beat Clemson. College football tends to get all teary-eyed about... more »
Oregon and Florida State, step forward. You have been assigned a difficult mission. The work is dangerous, and the quarry is ruthless. Stop the Southeastern Conference. It's a dirty job, but sooner or later, someone will have... more »
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Notre Dame is trying to turn up the volume in the “House that Rockne Built,” put some fight back in the Irish fans and make South Bend a tough place to play again. The university that prides itself on... more »
There is not a better, more electric, more dangerous college football player in America than De'Anthony Thomas. And the question now shouldn't be what the University of Oregon needs to do to help Thomas win the Heisman Trophy,... more »
Email
Print
Share