With one of the biggest games of the college football season going down today in Tuscaloosa, we'd be remiss not to mention it in our blog. Here at CONC, we're not typically enthralled by college football. And I think a lot of that has to do with the college football culture of the Northeast. There's absolutely NO good college football programs around the New England area, and we can't help but ignore watching mediocre football(Boston College getting housed by FSU this week and every ACC team for that matter) from time to time. But this is an epic game. Undefeated #1 LSU goes into Bryant-Denny stadium to face also undefeated #2 Alabama in a battle of the titans from the SEC.
In a game where the landscape of offensive theory is shifting so much toward the spread formation, two traditionalists, Nick Saban and Les Miles, find their programs at the top of the totem poll. Unlike many of their head coaching foes, Saban and Miles have stuck to the old fashioned way of winning by running the ball and playing in your face, knock you down, great physical defense. In a way, its sort of a refreshing thing to watch. It's something different from the norm in college football now-a-days, and thats something I can appreciate. Saban and Miles couldn't be playing this old school style without tremendous recruiting of both skill players and the big guys in the trenches. The fact that these two programs can play this style is a tribute to just how talented the players are on both teams. And I can't wait to tune in tonight to watch so much NFL talent in a style of game in one of its purest forms.
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