As Heard at Camp Randall

"Up yours, Michigan!!!"

-- Shouted by a 10-year old girl, who was previously disinterested in the Wisconsin-Citidel game until the Badgers scored their final touchdown.

Uniform Blasphemy

The photo at the top is a Miami (Ohio) University football player. The photo at the bottom is a University of Wisconsin football player. Anyone else see a problem here?!? When a football school like Wisconsin starts dressing like a not-known-for-our-football school like Miami (O-h-i-o) you know you're not doing something right.

Why this hideous (matching colored pants and colored jerseys) uniform decision?

AP:

[Badgers coach Bret] Bielema broke with tradition for the Badgers' home opener two weeks ago against Washington State, dressing the players in all red instead of red and white. While the new uniform drew a mixed reaction from fans, the players loved it, and Bielema said it will be back against The Citadel.

"I love to see just red swarming the football," Bielema said. "As this thing hopefully gains momentum, it will have a huge effect at Camp Randall."

While time will tell if Bielema's color scheme catches on, the Badgers are riding an 11-game winning streak that is tops in the nation.

Memo to Bielema -- the winning streak started back when your team dressed like football players, not wrestlers in a unitard. Bring back the white pants.

[Note: Before my reader asks, yes, the all white road uniforms are A-OK because that is a classic football look. The unitard, on the other hand, is something that a high school team would wear when the school district can't afford to buy both home and road pants].

All Those Formulas and the BCS Still Doesn't Add Up

ABC TV: "Wisconsin is the only one loss team in a BCS conference not playing in a BCS bowl."

Why? Because there is a rule that you can only have two teams from a conference in the BCS bowls.

Dumbest. Rule. Ever.

The best teams should play in the BCS, otherwise it isn't a useful measuring stick. But, hey, who is to say that having a bowl game at least a month after the end of the regular season is a meaningful way of determining anything either?

Until there is a true playoff system in college football to sort out who is and who is not overrated, college football -- BCS or no BCS -- will continue to end the year with more questions than answers.