If you have lived in Ohio, football and snow go together like milk and shake, or Woodrow and Hayes.
There?s something about the skies turning dark as the season comes toward an end. The weather comes to a chill, and if it?s November and football, there?s a chance of snow on the gridiron. This is how a lot of childhood memories are made.
It?s pure pigskin romance, but not if you?re from the Southeastern Conference.
Teddy Greenstein, whose reporting for the Chicago Tribune on the college football move to a four-team playoff has been excellent, had this laugher from Alabama coach Nick Saban.
After ripping Big Ten officials for being ?self-absorbed,? Saban let this one loose.
?For some young kid from Mobile, Ala., who has never seen snow, to have to play a national championship game in Wisconsin ? I don?t know if that?s the right thing.?
SEC officials, and coaches like Saban, have been adamant about keeping the advantages that have led them to six national titles. It includes the oversigning of players, whose most aggressive practitioners happen to be SEC coaches. It also includes the built-in homefield advantage of bowl season ? playing games on the west coast or in the south, where the weather is better suited to warm weather teams.
The Big Ten has given up on forcing national semifinal games at the home stadium of the highest seed ? which is a shame. A century of homefield advantage in the bowls is long enough, especially given the NFL is playing a February Super Bowl in New York.
It would be nice to see how that SEC speed would do in the snow. Too bad we?ll never find out.
Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2455 or bjbethel@DaytonDailyNews.com.
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