Play Someone!!

With the college football season starting next Thursday I have a little food for thought. Out of conference scheduling for major football programs might be one of my biggest concerns with the sport.

Now sure there are the Oklahoma State's, Virginia Tech's, Ohio State's, and others that have gone out of their way to schedule a couple tough games before conference play begins. But for the majority of the major football programs their out of conference schedule is a laughapallooza.

Florida and Penn State seem to be the guiltiest. Penn State's out of conference schedule consists of the all mighty Eastern Illinois Panthers, Temple, Syracuse, and yes our very own Akron Zips.

Why doesn't PSU just schedule division II and III teams? Why does Joe Pa and the rest of his staff think it's necessary to have three warm up games before the "Almighty Big 10" rigorous schedule? The Big 10 has two good teams, a bunch of average teams, and several bottom feeders but that's for another day.

We move to "The Swamp" and Gatoradeville. The Florida Gators, quite possibly one of the greatest NCAA Football teams ever to grace the sport (yes I said it, I hate the Gators but they are THAT good) and their out of conference schedule are teams you can find in the bottom 10% every year.

Florida scheduled Troy, Florida International, and the powerhouse Charleston Southern. When I saw Charleston Southern was on their schedule my immediate reaction was "CHARLESTON SOUTHERN HAS A FOOTBALL TEAM?!?!"

Memo to Urban Meyer and Joe Pa take after Pete Carroll, Jim Tressel, Nick Saban and the other coaches that have the pride to schedule a top 15 team out of conference.

Honestly if it comes down to a three team race for the BCS title and you are tied with an Ohio State, Alabama, or Virginia Tech they better get the nod over your teams. Especially if their one loss is to a USC, Virginia Tech, or a Boise State and you lost to an Indiana, or a Mississippi State.

They deserve it for not playing three or four warm up games that the final score was 61-3. And they actually played teams that understand the game they are playing is football and not running around like a bunch of children on recess.