Five Cavalcade of Whimsy footballey opinions and, like, other stuff
1. KJ Costello this …
Can we get more Houston Baptist games?
Sam Ehlinger threw for 262 yards and five touchdowns in the wild 63-56 Texas overtime win over Texas Tech.
Bailey Zappe of Houston Baptist threw for 567 yards and four touchdowns against the Red Raiders. The senior also threw for 406 yards and five scores against Louisiana Tech, and last week he threw for 480 yards and three touchdowns against North Texas.
The Huskies got rolled by the Mean Green and Bulldogs, and they lost by two to the Red Raiders, but on the year Zappe has thrown for 1,453 yards and 12 touchdowns with one interception in his three games. This week he has his final game of the season with a trip to Eastern Kentucky.
I’ll be the one that says it. America needs more Zappe.
2. Your 2020 Nebraska Cornhuskers
In our bitterly divided world that’s hopelessly lost and permanently fractured, I’ve found the one thing everyone seems to be able to agree on.
No one wants to hear from Nebraska about how hard its schedule is.
Chirp, chirp, chirp … you wanted to play college football, Nebraska. Go play college football.
You want to whine about having to open up the season at Ohio State? Kansas State just won at Oklahoma. Mississippi State just won at LSU. Go beat the Buckeyes in Columbus.
Not only did Nebraska’s schedule not change all that much – it had to go to Ohio State and Iowa and was originally slated to play Wisconsin and Penn State, anyway – it actually caught a break with the game against the Badgers being moved to Lincoln.
3. Everyone’s already playing. You can stop the sales job.
Enough with the talking point of college football being played so the players can be happy.
Enough with coaches, announcers, and other media types saying that all of this is being done “for the kids” and all the hard work they put in.
Yeah, if it was about players having fun, the school would still have a volleyball team – and maybe in-person classes.
Money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money and money. That’s why everyone moved heaven and earth to play college football during a global pandemic. Seeing the smiles on the faces of the 18-to-23-year-old guys is a sweetener.
4. It’s college. Sometimes you pass a test you thought you failed.
The Georgia State vs. Charlotte game this past weekend was postponed because a few Panther players tested positive for COVID-19. As it turns out, the tests yielded false results – the players were really negative.
1) Yay. 2) It’s okay. Better there was a mistake this way than the other.
It was a mistake, but it was an error on the side of caution. The system worked, Georgia State did the responsible thing to not play a game when it thought the health and safety was at risk for both sides, and the world kept spinning.
5. Everything is going to flip.
Get ready for college football to look a whole lot different than it did over the first month. As we’re seeing, there’s a massive difference for various teams as they get their timing down, their conditioning right, and they start to settle in, especially in the SEC.
Just wait. Texas A&M, LSU, Georgia’s offense, Florida’s defense – don’t overreact quite yet to what you just saw, SEC fans.
Oh, whatever. Overreact. You wouldn’t be SEC fans if you didn’t.