August is the month of hope and with hope, comes a little bit of exaggerated enthusiasm and misplaced belief. The storm before the storm of college football.
The 2022 college football season begins in 10 days with “Week 0” and fans and media outlets alike are churning out takes, polls, opinion pieces and, even worse, vapid think-pieces at a torrential rate. Boredom and lack of sports — apologies to MLB die-hards — drives people to write speculative pieces worthy of the National Enquirer.
It is lunacy, unproductive and easily one of my favorite journalistic times of the year, and I had to get in on the action.