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Kev’s Weekly Commentary
Kev's Corner Thoughts For This Day
September 1st 2026
Zero week in college football always presents some interesting match ups and story lines. It’s the week where football actually begins in the NCAA but none of the heavy weights are actually playing. All week long prior to the weekend you’re gonna listen to the mainstream media pontificate about Ohio State, Alabama, Texas and LSU, among a dozen or so others. They’ll spend alot of time talking about who is gonna be where at the end of the year, who is gonna end up with the Heisman and who will walk away with the National Championship.
The truth of the matter is that the main stream sports media outlets don’t know anything more then you and I. Trust me on this one. They’ll try like hell to keep us engaged. They’ll throw up last year’s statistics, strength ratios, who beat who and how many times and even throw up some celebrities to help in the prediction making process but in the end they are still at mile marker zero for the season. In the end when the games are played predictions don’t mean squat. Catchy graphics and highlights from games last year, augmented by the occasional blonde, really don’t cut it. You still have to play the game.
Here’s a case in point. Last year at this time no one had heard of Fernando Mendoza. Not even a rumor. Fernando who? If you had said in September that Indiana was gonna run the table, kick the pants off of Ohio State and the rest of The Big Ten and rip away the National Title from The Miami Hurricanes, in Miami no less, you probably would have been laughed out of town, maybe deported to Uganda or Liberia with no return ticket. With Mendoza being picked numero uno in The NFL and bringing his Heisman Trophy and championship ring with him to Las Vegas we all know how that story ended, so before all of you go screaming out your predictions on who’s gonna be where at the end of the season just remember what happened last year
and remember that there’s always the unexpected. It’s the only constant.
Now that we are moving into Week 1 of the season, I’m expecting things to pan out normally in the race for the collegiate national title. It will be the usual caos and intrigue. ESPN will be back with college game day and we’ll all have to watch a Golden Retriever match game picks with Nick Saban and Pat Macaffee. We’ll have to suffer thru a week’s worth of Alabama back stories and apologies from Lane Kiffin at LSU. The Heisman winner will be crowned before winning three games and yes, the pick for the national champion will probably change 3 or 4 times a week. It’s just another week in college football, right?
The point of saying all this is of course that no one can see into the future, yet. Stats and data really don’t mean much because you still have to deal with the X factor. A missed field goal, a bad catch, a fumble on the goal line,
bad weather, they can all make the difference in a winning season. One play and your season is over. One or two losses and you career is done. The only constant prediction that holds true is that something, on some given weekend, will kill everybody’s dreams and leave us all wondering why we continue to watch no matter the outcome. Let the games begin I say!!
Let the games begin I say!!
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