Gridiron Fanatics

I don’t know why I keep falling for it but it somehow I do. I keep going back to ESPN.com for my college football news. However, after reading this mock draft the other day I think that my daily internet breaks to the “world wide leader in sports” will become less and less. To save you a few painstaking minutes I’ll sum up the gist of this draft. Three writers Pat Forde, Ivan Maisel and Mark Schlabach “draft” college football’s 40 best programs to encompass the FBS while relegating the remaining 80+ teams to a second tier that could not compete for the NCAA championship. The general criteria used for selecting a team are as follows:

We’ll be drafting the most successful programs in the nation, based on whatever criteria each of us chooses to bring to the situation room. There is no set formula for this. Wins and losses matter most — and what you’ve done in the 21st century is more important than what happened in the 1930s — but fan following and overall prestige count, too.

Yup that’s right. They will be selecting a list of the 40 best college football programs with no rhyme or reason to it. The madness of this “draft” that ensues is mind boggling. How someone employed by ESPN could pick Utah, Boise State and BYU in the top 23 over UCLA, Boston College, Iowa and Miami, FL of an all time college football poll is beyond me. After reading this article it got me thinking. How much quality content does ESPN.com really produce these days? It seems like this type of mindless nonsense is becoming way too prevalent and anything with real substance is lacking. Instead of giving their crazy opinions on the top 40 programs with no rhyme or reason to the rankings why not write some insightful articles on what is actually happening in the world of college football?

As long as I keep reading gems like this:

23. BYU Cougars, selected by Mark Schlabach

I finally left Dixie and now I can’t get out of the Mountain Time Zone. I needed at least one team to offset my SEC selections, and I found it in BYU. The Cougars have never been on NCAA probation! The Cougars have had only three losing seasons since 1974, and don’t forget they won the 1984 national championship (by winning the Holiday Bowl). Bronco Mendenhall is the first BYU coach to take his first four teams to bowl games, and the Cougars are a sparkling 32-7 the last three seasons.

I’ll be looking for my college football content elsewhere.

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