Don't Bet On It!: Week Four College Football National Game of Disinterest

Check out “the” University’s OOC schedule in their 2007 MNC game campaign.

. . . a viable option because the Warriors supposedly are an attractive property for ESPN. If that’s true, they at least need to schedule like Notre Dame. We may mock the Irish for playing service academies, but two of the three service academies field bowl-worthy teams. Hawaii is constantly playing these kinds of games, on top of a weak WAC schedule, and the Islanders deserve to be criticized for it.

… which is, as usual, only mildly based in fact and does, in fact, contain a significant amount of conjecture and hearsay, is that the Rainbows will have a loosely-defined confederation with BYU.

BYU has a huge satellite campus in Hawai’i; in fact, the largest tourist destination in Hawai’i (the Polynesian Cultural Center) sits on the campus of and is operated by BYU-Hawai’i. The state of Hawai’i has the highest concentration of Mormons of any state not named “Utah.” And on top of that, the Mormon church simply has long, deep historical roots in the state of Hawai’i. (The first modern Mormon temple built outside of Utah was built in Hawai’i in 1915, among other things.)

I think the Rainbows, at a bare minimum, would end up playing BYU in a home-and-home every year in football. BYU might also, for example, enter into joint scheduling agreements with Hawai’i. In such an agreement, BYU might agree to play a home-and-home with a BCS conference team if that team will also schedule a home-and-home with Hawai’i.

Ultimately, however it works out, I think there’s too much history between the Mormon church and the state of Hawai’i to think that they won’t ally themselves together in some way if both are independent in football.

I fear the humorous intent behind the national game of disinterest is being lost upon the sorts of fans who believe their point is emphasized by capitalizing every letter of every word.

I’m sorry if you didn’t get the joke, Islandstyle82, but please ease up on the profanity and on using slurs if you plan on sticking around and explaining how a 41-10 thumping of by far the best team in school history somehow was unrepresentative.

While I try not to be critical of innocuous typographical errors, I cannot resist the temptation after being told by a first-time commenter that I suck and that I can’t read a schedule (which, evidently, I did, since I was able to discern whom Hawaii was playing when), so please look into learning the proper spellings of “football,” “conference,” “obviously,” and “their,” as well as the difference between “your” and “you’re.”

Thanks in advance for your cooperation.

I’m praying Islandstyle82 is a Buffs fan with a sense of irony.