September 1, 2009

Will you see all 120 teams play in 2009?

Colin Fly will give it the old college try. He only plans to try to see one quarter for each team, but is a sprots writer so has other duties on Saturday.

This article is mostly a nod to how the coverage of football has changed since the Supreme Court ruled the old NCAA television rules violated anti-trust laws in the 80's. A healthy dose of the benefit for fans hungry for any game they can get and smaller teams hungry for any exposure they can get of the proliferation of off Saturday games is stirred into the mix.

Why watch just a quarter when you can watch an entire game?

This would require watching 4 games per week, which would be insufficient for me. If you find a good sports bar you can see many in parallel every Saturday, putting in 6 solid hours of dedicated research. This is far more research than is done by those voting in the Coaches poll or even the Harris Interactive poll.

At least you could watch a game or two of all the teams in the top 10 if you will be voting on the championship game participants.

Maybe we need a poll of bloggers who have obsessively watched every game they could? I would also support the idea of a sports bar manager's poll.

Frankly I will not see all teams this year. I'll stick to at least one from every team with a winning record. That way I'll be ready for the Fanblog's Bowl Pick'em. It might be interesting to see if this can be done watching only ESPN, ESPN 2, Versus, CBS College Sports, ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox.

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Will you see all 120 teams play in 2009?
Colin Fly will give it the old college try. He only plans to try to see one quarter for each team, but is a sprots writer so has other duties on Saturday. This article is mostly a nod to how the coverage of football has changed since the Supreme Court ruled the old NCAA television rules violated anti-trust laws in the 80's. A healthy dose of the benefit for fans hungry for any game they can get and smaller teams hungry for any exposure they can get of the proliferation of off Saturday games is stirred into the mix. Why watch just a quarter when you can watch an entire game? This would require watching 4 games per week, which would be insufficient for me. If you find a good sports bar you can see many in parallel every Saturday, putting in 6 solid hours of dedicated research. This is far more research than is done by those voting in the Coaches poll or even the Harris Interactive poll. At least you could watch a game or two of all the teams in the top 10 if you will be voting on the championship game participants. Maybe we need a poll of bloggers who have obsessively watched every game they could? I would also support the idea of a sports bar manager's poll. Frankly I will not see all teams this year. I'll stick to at least one from every team with a winning record. That way I'll be ready for the Fanblog's Bowl Pick'em. It might be interesting to see if this can be done watching only ESPN, ESPN 2, Versus, CBS College Sports, ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox.