‘Noles down low, ‘Dores up high … what’s going on?
One is a football factory, a flat-out jock assembly line with various classes and professors getting in the way. The other operates without an athletic department, without much care, it seems, whether it contends for championships.
Florida State or Vanderbilt. Which would you rather be this week?
If you said Vanderbilt go to the head of the, uh, class. If you can. Ninety-five percent of the school’s freshmen score at least 24 on the ACT.
At Florida State — where ACT used to mean Always Catching Touchdowns — the ‘Noles would settle for a score, any score.
The two programs are headed in opposite directions for the first time in, well, forever. College football awoke to a bizarro world Sunday that saw Vanderbilt ranked for the first time since 1984. Florida State was just rank.
If you wanted an example of parity, folks, here it is. Vandy is 4-0 for only the fourth time since World War II. Playing an easier schedule than the Commodores, Florida State is 2-1. FSU continues to sink into the tar pit that has become the latter part of Bobby Bowden’s career. Two 7-6 seasons have been followed by Saturday’s statement that a turnaround isn’t near.
sportsline.com
9/21/08
