Here at liveforthepage.com I pride myself on all content being honest to the best of the ability of those contributing. Partially as a way of counter-balancing the political onslaught of the next three months, and partially because I am playing way too much EA Sports College Football 25 I will be starting a new weekly post to talk about something related to college football this year. It’s natty championship or bust for our Ohio State Buckeyes this year, and I plan on busting open a few natty lights as well along the way.

I used to watch a ton of college football growing up, but my interest waned after high school, on and off getting into Buckeye runs when I moved to Columbus, and watching the playoff. First, because I want this to be something a person outside of Columbus would read, I am going to try my best to avoid being too much of a homer. Full disclosure: I graduated from the University of Toledo, and I work on Ohio State’s campus currently, I’m diving back into college football as an experience and I love the Buckeyes.

The scarlet and grey do not kickoff until next week, however I want to give a quick preview for week one matchup of Akron at home: it will be boring as hell. This has been one of my gripes with college football and why my attention to it faded, there are so many boring, meaningless, uncompetitive games. In terms of funding, size, athletic ability and coaching these two teams are barely playing the same sport. Buck nuts in the 614 and beyond will enjoy seeing the second and third string recruits early in the second half.

I stressed objectivity earlier, so allow me to say something nice about Michigan football, as it may be the last time all season. They have an ‘end of the third quarter’ pump up song similar to Wisconsin’s, “Jump Around.” Michigan plays, “Mr. Brightside” by the Killers, huge pop hit of my generation, and hearing 100,000 people sing it together is just one of those traditions that makes me smile. Piling on the objectivity front, I root for Michigan when they play Notre Dame.

I hope this will be a fun topic to come back to and that it will sufficiently dilute the political posts that are bound to come this election season. Our resident expert on all things Buckeyes and college football Zach will join me at some point for expert analysis, he is currently coaching all three of his kids in soccer and wasn’t available to breathe, let alone comment. Thanks for reading, and I hope this will be a classic college football season to watch with the new playoff format.