The annual precursor to real football starts this Thursday.
"Ocian in view...O! the joy!" wrote then-2nd LT William Clark on the heels of a 19-month, overland journey from St. Louis to Washington state. Of note - Clark was still approximately 20 miles from the Pacific coast when he wrote it. But, hey - he'd covered the hard part already.
And so it is for us, fellow college football fans. Our 2015 college football season comes within view, as the Big Ten conference conducts its annual Media Days session in Chicago, IL this week. O! The Joy!
Unlike past events, the 2015 Media Days will split the 14 conference teams into two groups of seven.