Yes sports fans, yet another blog.  The topics generally covered here will be college football, as seen from the eyes of a fan of one of those schools that doesn't have a proud winning tradition that can be thrown in the face of anyone who's good enough to beat his team. You know, the frauds, overrateds, pretenders, jokes, wannabees, really any team that's not in the SEC, Pac-10, Big-10, Big-12, or ACC (hereinafter known as "football's old guard heroes of righteous normalcy " aka FOGHORN).  So if there's anything of interest involving we barbarians and the Holy Roman College Football Empire, we'll offer some hopefully relevant comments.

Last week, several of us barbarians took Fox Sportswriter Matt Zemek to task for trashing the Big East in his Instant Analysis of the Rutgers/USF game.  Zemek argued in support of his article on the boards, which I thought took some guts.  This week, after watching the BC/Va Tech game, I was just waiting for Zemek to come out and claim that this matchup was a worthy match for such a prestigious conference as the ACC.  Unfortunately, no rapier like wit can be unleashed on Mr. Zemek because he ripped the ACC as well calling it an "emasculated and  hollowed out conference" and stating that ACC stands for "Acutely Compromised Conference."  Well Matt, get ready for the hate mail from the ACC.  But you are consistent and I was happy to see that you're willing to rip conferences other than the Big East.

It was also interesting to see not one, but two WAC teams listed as "sleepers" for the national title.  Hawaii's been getting press and  pundits believe that they'll make the BCS dance if they run the table.  Shocking though was Pete Fiutak picking Boise State as a sleeper.  A WAC team in the BCS with one loss? Are you trying to cause massive heart attacks of FOGHORN fans throughout the country?  Isn't there some provision in the BCS rules that says that any team from a conference that hosts a bowl game with no more than four losses trumps a non-bcs team with one loss?  I can hear the screaming now if Boise State makes it. 

Another nightmare for FOGHORNS appeared on the horizon after the last BCS rankings were published.  Connecticut, ranked at  23.  Ahead of Penn State and Alabama!  The Huskies have a tough game against an angry USF team this week. Regardless of the outcome, IMHO, it's always nice to seem some new faces on the bowl scene.  Miami and Virginia Tech didn't have football prowess dating to the 1920's, but the world survived during their title runs.  The more the merrier!