In today's issue of the IDS, I wrote about the cupcake tour that is the first week of the college football season.
To clarify, this column was not directed only at IU , but rather college football as a whole. I was also not suggesting that the Hoosiers play schools like Florida and USC in the nonconference. My suggestion was that IU schedule power-conference teams from the area, such as Kentucky and Louisville.
In the model I proposed, the Hoosiers could still play two smaller schools, perhaps Towson and Akron. If they won both of those games and lost to Kentucky and Louisville, they would enter Big Ten play with a 2-2 record. If they managed to go .500 in the conference, they would make a bowl game.
A team that goes 2-6 in conference play should not get to play in a bowl game, in my opinion. There have to be rules with regards to nonconference schedules.
What are your thoughts on this? Do you want to see more Penn State-Alabama tilts early in the season or are you content to see IU play Towson?
(Note: In today's column, I suggested that I had never heard of Rice University and implied that you hadn't either. I did not mean that I hadn't heard of the school, but was only trying to make the point that Texas was playing a small school. I apologize if some of you took that the wrong way. I simply meant I had not heard about Rice's football program. Obviously, its baseball program and academic achievements speak for themselves.)
