has it been posted anywhere that the aggieville creepster is throwing his hat in the ESPN/SEC bias article party?
On Nov. 1 in Morgantown, W.Va., something so shocking, so disturbing, so un-ESPN-like will take place that it's hard to explain how it will occur. ESPN's College Gameday crew will cover a Big 12 Conference game for the first time this year.
That's right, prior to Week 10 of the season, ESPN had not visited a Big 12 campus. It hadn't visited a Big Ten campus, either, but I think we can all agree that the Big Ten isn't exactly having a stellar year in football. It's lost so many battles this year that France is making fun of the Big Ten.
It had gone to Dallas to open the season because defending national champion Florida State was playing there against -- This wasn't really important to the selection of the FSU game for "College Gameday" -- Oklahoma State of the Big 12.
Leading up to the cast heading to the mountains of West Virginia, College Gameday had covered four SEC games, three games featuring Florida State, and the best early season non-conference matchup of the season of Michigan State at Oregon, which was followed by a stop in Fargo, N.D., to give three-time FCS champion North Dakota State a much-deserved tip of the cap.
Since that week three stop in North Dakota, the College Gameday set visited over the next seven weeks the states of Florida, South Carolina, Mississippi, Mississippi, Florida, Louisiana and West Virginia.
Nice job, ESPN, which apparently now stands for the Everything Southern Programming Network.
Honestly, ESPN is a business, so it can take its set anywhere it pleases. ESPN now operates the SEC Network and is the primary rights holder for ACC football games, so network executives probably see promoting their financial interests as more important than fairness to other conferences and their fans, which are beginning to abandon ESPN as a trusted source for their college football news.
According to recent numbers, viewership of the mighty ESPN College Gameday show is down 10 percent this year. It's their business to build ... or ruin.