For the first time in over 20 years, I didn’t spend part of my Labor Day weekend in Lincoln, Nebraska for a Husker football game.
And a confession: I didn’t miss it at all. In fact, I actually enjoyed it.
Don’t get me wrong, I love Husker football. But I’ve grown to realize that the opening weekend of college football has been wasting the last big weekend of summer, and not having a Husker game to go to confirmed it.
Part of it was that this year, virtually nobody was playing on Labor Day weekend. The biggest name playing was BYU at Navy on Labor Day night in a game that probably should have been called by a mercy rule at halftime.