Home is where the heart is? Not this season
Strategy goes in and out of fashion, just like hair length, tattoos and helmet designs. The pass used to be viewed with disdain, and the punt used to be a weapon, not an admission of offensive failure.
Through the history of the game, however, the home field always provided an advantage. Oddsmakers said three points, and that always sounded low.
But after Saturday, even the sanctity of the home field is in question. With September in the record books, the national championship race and several conference races look a lot different than they did on Friday. Five ranked teams — No. 3 Georgia, No. 4 Florida, No. 16 Wake Forest, No. 20 Clemson and No. 23 East Carolina — all lost in their own stadiums Saturday. Nebraska and Miami, two teams on the fringe of the rankings, also lost at home, the Hurricanes by blowing a 10-point lead in the fourth quarter.
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9/28/08
Magnolia Tribune
