Game Four: The Test

September 23^rd

Vs. University Of Colorado (in Athens, GA)

If you don'’t know anything about college football, you STILL may have heard about the Colorado Buffaloes. Sexual harassment and rape, recruiting orgies, ethnic intimidation and I think they have managed to play some football in between. So, yeah, that coach was fired. New coach Dan Hawkins is very familiar with Georgia. He made a visit last September with his old team Boise State. Boise State was supposed to march into Athens and show how powerful a "“mid-major"” team is (mid-major - a team not in one of the BCS, er Big Boy conferences). That. Never. Happened. The Dawgs TROUNCED Hawkins'’ team and sent them back with a whimper. So what did Dan do? He got himself an upgrade job at a school with a football program that really needed cleaning up. Enter the new and improved Colorado Buffs. Sometimes, people just need a change of scenery and this year will be a change of scenery for the entire team. They did make it to the Big 12 Conference Championship Game for the second year in a row last year, but got their ass spanked 70-3 by Texas (throw that game out because teams like the 2005 Texas Longhorns don'’t come around very often). The Buffs are a solid team with a new coach out to prove something. This game will get some national attention because many college football fans outside the south think that the SEC teams don't play any "“good" non-conference teams (Of course we counter with "We can't! We'’re too busy beating each other up!'). A lot of people will be watching to see how an SEC powerhouse matches up with a Big 12 powerhouse. Then, of course this will spark intellectual debates ('“You guys SUCK!' 'No YOU guys suck!'”). I think we will win only because the Buffs have more questions than we do. Oh, and it'’s in Athens.