Thursday Commentary: Rhymes With Orange

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If you’re a football fan, soak it in while you can. The fun is coming to an end in about a month.

However the College Football season is hitting a peak tonight and tomorrow with the semifinals of the College Football Playoff. The 12 teams who started this thing have been whittled down to four.

Penn State meets Notre Dame tonight in the Orange Bowl at Hard Rock Stadium – home of the Dolphins – and the Fightin’ Irish are favored by a point-and-a-half. So it should be a good game.

I don’t have a rooting interest, however my best friend Derek Meyers’ favorite team was always Notre Dame so … go Irish!

The Voice of the Ottawa RedBlacks AJ Jakubec is coming down here for the game and asked me to join, but sadly had to decline. Can’t be everywhere, especially when the cheapest ticket tonight is going for $300 USD. 

Frankly Friday night’s Cotton Bowl Classic is a far more marquee showdown between two of the game’s biggest brands – Ohio State University versus the Texas Longhorns.

The Buckeyes are favored by 5.5.

If you’re looking for a rooting interest in that one, former Roughriders quarterback Steve Sarkisian is the Longhorns coach.

Last year I recall CFL Commissioner Randy Ambrosie snickering to me that OSU has a payroll of $25-million, thanks to NIL.

It’s a long story.

Really digging into College Football and trying to understand it enough to be able to discuss it intelligently feels like parachuting into a tornado.

It’s dicey at the best of times, and always changing.

Revenue sharing is coming next year, and likely a change to the 12-team format after only one year in its current form.

You can spend all day debating what’s fair and what’s not and trust me, millions of people will.

But the easiest thing to do is … just enjoy the games.

That’s today’s Rod Pedersen Commentary.

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