We start off with an apology: my heart hasn’t been in it for the past two seasons.
It probably showed up in the quality of the work, and I know some of you noticed I didn’t write a Delusional Optimism column last year, but… I couldn’t bring myself to care about college football the past two seasons.
I don’t want to go over the ground again, and I’m not speaking for anyone but me, but I thought the decision to play college football in 2020 during the height of the pandemic was disgusting. When the world was shutting down, we had no problem running out an unpaid workforce out there in front of empty stadiums so the schools could keep cashing those big TV checks.