Two sportswriters, both with Southern drawls, found themselves sitting through a mandatory college sports summit last week in a place that simply oozes with college football tradition -- Connecticut.
While listening to myriad speakers over three days, the first writer -- Mark Schlabach -- realizes that the 100-day mark of the first full weekend of college football is rapidly approaching. The other writer sitting next to him -- Ryan McGee -- suggests they pass the time by making a list of the 100 things they can't wait to see during the 2018 season.
The conversation that followed went something like this .