YAWN

There are a couple of "big" games this weekend for college football which could affect the outcome of conference championships. In the SEC, Alabama hosts LSU, while Ohio State travels to Happy Valley to take on Penn State. The bad news? I have tons of yard work to get completed this weekend. The good news? I won't miss anything in these two games.

The SEC has long owned the reputation of being the home of the best athletes in the country, with faster players on offense and harder hitters than any conference across the nation. However, this is a down year for the conference. You've got 3 teams (LSU, Alabama, and Florida) with the the same number of combined victories against Top 25 teams (2) as Texas, and one less than Iowa. The fact is, the conference isn't as good as folks have assumed they were over the past 3 years. Alabama's near implosion against Tennessee a few weeks back vindicates this. Florida struggled with Arkansas. And this Saturday? Good grief - I guess we'll have to watch the game or the highlights and hear another long story about physical and hard hitting the Tigers and Tide defenses are, instead of legitimate criticism about how pathetic their offenses are. Even with the benefit of the doubt - should a top 3 team (Alabama) only score 12 points at home against Tennessee, a team coming off its worse season in years and under the direction of a new coach? While CBS wants us to acknowledge the Alabama / LSU battle as a clash of the Titans, I'll simply take it for what it is - a couple of inept offenses making some good defenses look great.

The game pitting Ohio State and Penn State scares me. To death. As in a snooze-fest so intense that viewers could announced clinically dead by any reasonable medical professional. If you thought last year's 10-6 Penn State win was yawner, wait until Saturday's doozy. I heard ESPN spouting about two top 6 defenses playing each other. You want to watch a great defense like the kind they play in the Big 10? Go to Lowe's and get a lawn weed/pest defender and spread it around your lawn. Then grab a beer, sit on your porch, and watch your grass be "defended" while it grows. Trust me, I've tried to watch Big 10 football, and this will be more exciting. Seriously - if you best team is Iowa, are you really expecting me to tune in to your other teams????