If there's anything positive that comes out of the conference re alignments, it's hopefully no more PSU vs UMass type of games. There's literally no reason besides money to play this game.
Homecoming?
Well, it was homecoming, but it's a non competitive game. For some reason I thought Umass was actually the lower divison like Delaware is, but they moved up like 10 years ago and actually are independant. But still, the game was stupid and PSU paid them 1.5 million to take the beating just so PSU can get an extra home game and rake in the money. This is totally common in FBS, but it really needs to go away. There's so many more teams to play than something like that.
And funny enough, winning 63-0 only knocked them back a spot in the rankings
I understand why that happened (Washington with a big win) and things will be setlled this week when PSU plays OSU. But it's all just too much about the money and not enough about competition.
Rant over. Big game coming up. College gameday will be there in Columbus. THIS game is what I love about college football. Top 10 teams going to battle, both undefeated, and both not really tested. It's a toss up in my head although Franklin hasn't shown he can beat OSU beyond a fluke play so I would pick OSU, but this may be the best PSU to play OSU under Franklin. The defense is just so good (check that, they dominate every statistical catagory) that I expect them to be in the game until the end. This is going to be on my mind all week.