Frogs and Bulldogs, Oh My!

I’m doing a lot of catching up on all those blog posts I didn’t write.

So here we are. Frogs and Bulldogs. I really haven’t had a handle on the pulse of the college football [four team] playoff, and so I really don’t have a take in 2023 the way I normally would.

That being said there is one aspect which comes as quite refreshing. At least there’s no ‘Bama. My apologies to the roll Tide universe, and I take nothing away from the dominance during the Sabin tenure, but whole aspect of seeing Alabama got to be a bit tiring. College football is about rebirth and renewal. Classes graduate (presumably), and athletic directors and coaching staffs scramble for the next wave of recruits. Again, nothing against Alabama, and they no doubt will be in the playoff again – especially when the format expands. However, dynasties that are not your dynasties grow tiresome, and seeing the Horned Frogs is a cold drink on a hot southern day.

The same goes for Ohio State and Clemson. It felt for a few years that you could pencil these colleges in at the start of September, and then the rest barring upsets were glorified preseason games. That changed this year, and it was for the better. Now it is a matter of sitting back and seeing what this college football championship game has to offer without having this itch to grab the remote to find alternatives because it feels like an encore broadcast from a previous year.I have no personal attachment to either side – I just want to see a good game. A different game, and that alone is a welcoming change of pace.