As you’re plenty aware, the United States had a presidential election last week. A Syracuse grad won, though we’re not talking about that much here because this is the internet in 2020.
What it does bring up, though, is the nature of the electoral college as a means of altering the realities we know. Over at Moon Crew, Jason Kirk brought up how college football could be different if it used the electoral college — and specifically, if it gave a three-point boost to blue state teams (by Jason’s definition, teams in states that have voted blue for the last seven presidential elections).