The Daily Dose/March 13, 2025
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
HUT, HUT, HIKE: There are a couple of ways to look at changes to the College Football Playoff (CFP): a big picture view and a detailed view. We are going to bore you with both.
Dry, Technical Matter: The current version ends after this coming football season and nothing has been decided beyond that, though there is a TV contract with ESPN in place.
Shorthand Me: On the one hand, they can do whatever the hell they want as long as the title game is held at the Rose Bowl on either New Year’s Day or Monday, January 2. They can have as many teams as they want, seed them however they want, issue as many byes as they want – all will be well with the world if the college football season ends on January 1.
This is both traditional and practical. The tradition is obvious, even to those that run college football. . As a practical matter, keeping the CFP out of January will avoid conflicts with the NFL playoffs and weekday CFP games.
Dry, Technical Matter II: Heck, make it a celebration of college football and hold the lower level national championships and New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day.
Write This Down: What we would like to see is a 16-team tournament starting on the first weekend in December. The dates for the regular season can be adjusted accordingly and with everything the big schools have done to the sport, the season can begin a week or two earlier without problems.
The Bottom Line: The SEC and Big Ten, of course, will try to ram through whatever will make them the most money. Too bad, because with some foresight a 16-team tournament ending on New Year’s Day would become an American classic quicker than you can say “strength of schedule”.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow runs into Carolyn at the grocery store. Today’s Diary,
She had a recipe printout in her cart for vegetarian shepherds pie, which we found funny because by her own admission, she doesn’t cook…
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1639 – The Massachusetts legislature decrees that the then-unnamed college it founded three years earlier be named after Rev John Harvard. The year before, Harvard had bequeathed to the school half his estate and his library of 400 books. Harvard, then unnamed, had been founded by the Massachusetts colony in 1636 and graduated its first class in 1642. Today, Harvard College is the undergraduate college of Harvard University.
In 1999 – Evander Holyfield and Lennox Lewis retain their respective world heavyweight titles in a 15-round split draw at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Two judges scored the fight for each boxer, while the third scored it a draw, a controversial decision as most thought Lewis had won, with the AP scoring the fight 117-111 in favor of Lewis. Immediately after the fight the WBC, WBA, and IBF ordered a rematch, which Lewis won in November.
In 1982 – The J Geils Band is at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the sixth and final consecutive week with Centerfold. The song also went to #1 in Australia and Canada, peaked at #3 in Great Britain, and was Billboard’s 5th-biggest song of the year. It was the sixth of nine Top 40 hits for the group, their first of two Top 10s, and remains their only #1 song. In February, the album the song came from, Freeze-Frame, spent four weeks at #1 on the Billboard 200 Album chart
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Friedrich Nietzsche
Answer To The Last Trivia Questions
Knowledge is power.
The NHL began playing 82 games in a season in the 1995-96 season.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
How many songs spent at least six weeks at #1 on the Hot 100 in 1982? – Answer next time!
