Ticket Mania Week 2

Friday, Sep 10, 2010

West Virginia at Marshall Football Tickets

Section 229 | Row 17

Price: $90.00 per ticket

Saturday, Sep 11, 2010

Presbyterian at Clemson

Section Top Deck Sideline TDF Row T

Seats: 10, 12

$20.00 per ticket

Georgia Tech at Kansas

Section Corner 1Row 23

Seats: 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18

Price: $21.00 per ticket

New Hampshire at Pittsburgh Football Tickets

Section Upper Level 523 Row S

Price: $3.00 per ticket

Southern Illinois at Illinois Football Tickets

Section Horseshoe 122 Row 21

Price: $19.59 per ticket

Miami at Ohio State Football Tickets

Section Deck 14 C Row 25

Seats: 28, 29

Price: $150.00 per ticket

UNLV at Utah Football Tickets

Section Redzone N 22 Row 39

Seats: 11, 12

Price: $15.00 per ticket

Colorado at Cal Football Tickets

Section Young Alumni QQ | Row 63

Seats: 7, 8

Price: $34.00 per ticket

LSU at Vanderbilt Football Tickets

Section Sideline A | Row 47

Price: $33.00 per ticket

Looking Ahead

SEC Championship Football Game Tickets Saturday, Dec 4, 2010 at 1:00 p.m. (EST)

Section Upper End Zone 330 Row 19

Seats: 19, 20, 21, 22

Price: $349.00 per ticket

ACC Football Championship Game Tickets

Saturday, Dec 4, 2010 at 1:00 p.m. (EST)

Section Upper Premium 543 Row 18

$51.00 per ticket

Big 12 Football Championship Tickets

Saturday, Dec 4, 2010 at 1:00 p.m. (CST)

Section Upper Reserved 428 | Row 3

Price: $275.21 per ticket

A Record Low

Saturday, Sep 18, 2010

Northern Illinois at Illinois Football Tickets

Section Horseshoe 112 Row 43

Seats: 20

Quantity: 1

Price: $0.95 per ticket

Plus Fed Ex Delivery Charge $16.95

Secret Ballots--Public Results

A college degree is not just the learning. In exchange for your time and ten’s of thousands of dollars you can tell people where you went to school and hope they are impressed. Is a student with a degree from Harvard or Yale head and shoulders above the person with a degree from a local state university that began at community college? Hard to tell? Looking over a stack of resumes, which stand out Yale or Northern Iowa?

In this season’s crop of preseason rankings there is one team (like Auburn in 2008) that will be ranking highly only to finish in November without a bowl bid. With the coaches’ ballot now to be secret it is interesting to see how another ballot is filled out.

"University of Florida President Bernie Machen, in a recent assessment of national universities, gave his school the highest-possible ranking, "distinguished," as he also did Harvard, Princeton and Yale universities."

See the ballot here http://www.gainesville.com/assets/pdf/GS17003616.PDF

Running a large university is a difficult job and while you may have a feeling about the competition you may not truly have a nation wide perspective. Apparently President Machen has a very positive view of the job he is doing a UF. He therefore rated his school and therefore his job as “Distinguished”. Two other schools that were rated overall as being the equals of UF, Fordham (“Strong”) and the University of Delaware (“Adequate”) have taken steps to improve their positions in this ranking.

Recently there has been buzz that the Delaware Blue Hens were considering a move the FBS level given there success on the field and putting fans in their stadium. Fordham for its part shook up the sleepy Patriot League by offering scholarship for football which academically minded north eastern universities do not need. Since the 1950’s members of both the Ivy and the near by Patriot League have offered football scholarships. Consequently, college football in the region is smaller than the one would expect given the population. These schools need to learn from the great University of Florida and realize the you can have both...bread, circus and by the way since we say so academics.

So watch President Machen, the competition is upgrading their football and shortly may be nipping a the Gator’s in arrested and legal fees.

And remember, it is only wrong if someone is watching.

Three Losses in One Day

Delaware State Hornets:

1. Has forfeited their scheduled October 17 game against North Carolina A&T

2. Will in all likelihood lose to Michigan October 17 in Ann Arbor.

3. Are only reportedly getting $500,000 for their trouble.

Delaware State, which should make about $500,000 or more for playing at U-M, technically starts the season 0-1.

Big Ten Conference Game of the Week

Conference game of the week--mark your calendars now.
Rules: Every team must make the list at least once
Guideline: The most important game is not always the most interesting



Saturday, September 5
Illinois vs. Missouri (St. Louis)
Nuetral site game, strong OOC match up and refreshing diversion form the cupcake dominated slate of games.


Saturday, September 12
Air Force at Minnesota
New stadium trumps the more important games:Iowa at Iowa State, Notre Dame at Michigan, USC at Ohio State, Syracuse at Penn State, Purdue at Oregon, or Fresno State at Wisconsin

Saturday, September 19
Arizona at Iowa
One of the few Big/Pac 10 match ups.

Saturday, September 26
Notre Dame at Purdue
The Boilermakers always play tough before the Irish prevail.

Saturday, October 3
Michigan at Michigan State
The Spartans last had consecutive wins against the Wolverines in 1965, 1966, 1967.

Saturday, October 10
Purdue at Minnesota
Scrambling for a Insight or Motor City appearance.

Saturday, October 17
Delaware State at Michigan
Not Delaware, Delaware State from the MEAC. This way be the worst match up up the year.

Saturday, October 24
Minnesota at Ohio State
Can the Gophers make a move in the conference.

Saturday, October 31
New Mexico State at Ohio State
Almost like a practice.How many zeros on that check?

Saturday, November 7
Ohio State at Penn State
Who will be smelling roses will be on the line.

Saturday, November 14
Indiana at Penn State
Hangover for the Lions?

Saturday, November 21
Wisconsin at Northwestern
The Badger are playing a conference on rivalry weekend

Saturday, November 28
Illinois at Cincinnati
Winner by default

Saturday, December 5
Wisconsin at Hawaii
Much better than than staying in Madison in December.