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The college football season starts Saturday. They call this Week Zero.
Tell me how a week can be Week Zero. While you’re at it, explain how the Big Ten can have 18 members and the Pacific-12 can have four. OK, I understand the ruthless greed part of it. The math, not so much.
Then, explain college football’s targeting rule.
Then, explain why I would rather watch what is shown by a webcam at a water hole in a Namibia desert than Saturday night’s Massachusetts-New Mexico State game on ESPN.
Iowa has two of its football games scheduled on the Peacock streaming subscription service, at home against Michigan State Sept. 30 and in Chicago’s Wrigley Field against Northwestern Nov. 4.
This is a get-used-to-it deal, but we all know a lot of people won’t get used to it right away. The confusion and hard feelings will be painful for those who live outside the world of Apple TV+ and Amazon Prime.
For those who don’t already have Peacock, I strongly recommend you not only stay the course, but take it a step further and stop watching television and streaming services altogether.
Buy a motorcycle. Take up drumming. Raise chickens. Unless you’re my neighbors. Then please do none of those things and continue watching TV. Subscribe to Peacock for all I care.
It didn’t seem charitable last week when Stugotz of the Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz said the ‘I’ in ‘Iowa’ stands for “I have a gambling problem.”
If Iowa put as much effort into pulling books from school libraries as it does chasing down college athletes who wager — never mind, it does.
It’s being called a record-breaking women’s basketball crowd, but will the 40,000 or more who attend the Oct. 15 DePaul-Iowa scrimmage at Kinnick Stadium (weather permitting) count as a record when it isn’t an actual game?
What I really want to know is this: What if it’s really windy that afternoon?
DePaul played before 29,464 fans last season in Chicagoland. Of course, that included 15 home games, one at Loyola, and one at Northwestern.
On Aug. 30, Nebraska will play Omaha in volleyball before over 91,000 fans in the Huskers’ Memorial Stadium. The tickets for adults sold for $25.
Women’s college athletics are trending up, wouldn’t you say?
In more ticket sales news, Iowa football will be sold out this season and Kentucky sold out its 40,200 season tickets and 6,500 student season tickets. That’s the phenomenon known as the Music City Bowl bounce.
Iowa had an NCAA-champion wrestler in 1987 named Rico Chiapparelli. He flipped a lot of people to avoid predicaments.
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