Remember Two Things
With the close, but dull, rain soaked game between UAB and South Florida not giving me much to write about, I wanted to bring up two things from the past.
#1: A couple of weeks ago,
I wrote about how Penn State only scored 4 points in their loss to Iowa. I had remarked that this was the topic of conversation at the bar one night a few years ago. I guess we didn't look hard enough when searching if 4 points were ever scored. It turns out that the very first college football game ever ended with the score 6-4, just as in the Iowa-Penn State matchup.
The game was between Princeton and Rutgers back in 1869. The rules were a little different back in those days, and each score only counted for one point, so scoring 4 was not exactly the same as it is today. I still haven't found a score of 4 with the modern college football rules, but I will keep looking.
#2: Toledo lost to Miami(Ohio) last night 20-13. Normally, I wouldn't point this out, but the MRI got this one right while ESPN.com had this one very wrong. On ESPN.com, Toledo, now 6-3, was ranked as the
#5 Mid-Major team in college football this past week. Before the game, the MRI only had Toledo as the #5 team in the MAC, a conference rated 10 out of 11 by the MRI. Why the big discrepancy? I can't be sure, but it might have something to do with Toledo playing the 100th ranked schedule in Division 1-A football. They are even doing that without playing anyone from Division 1-AA, which makes it even tougher to have that easy a walk so far. Their wins have come against all of the Directional Michigan teams, Ohio, Temple, and Ball State. The combined wins of those schools: 12. And some of those 12 wins have come against 1-AA teams. Toledo should have never been ranked that high, especially not by ESPN. They found on on Tuesday night why.
Enjoy
B
