Battle Red Bag 2015, Episode 3: Ranking Bad

This week's mailbag is also playing without a helmet. - Kevin Jairaj-USA TODAY SportsThis week's installment of Battle Red Bag 2015 features a mulligan on last week's unbearable powerfulness of rankings, accountants in coffee shops, a literary critique (of sorts), and other gallimaufry. Enjoy.

I had a conversation the other day with a lifelong Arkansan who, unsurprisingly, is one of those diehard Razorback fans that festoons his (red, of course) truck with myriad magnets and flags on gameday. In response to my questioning why he, an Arkansas State graduate, was so passionate about the Razorbacks, he explained that I "just don't get it" because I'm "not from here."

And he is correct. There is…