17 Random Thoughts About The 2024 Blue-White Game

Photo by Scott Taetsch/Getty ImagesFor a few hours this past Saturday, football was back in Happy Valley. The final practice of the spring culminated in the annual Blue-White game. You bet your sweet rear-end I got some thoughts.

Is it bad if my first thought is that spring games are generally pretty meaningless? I don’t think there’s much correlation to good spring = good football team. Not that spring games were particularly open and useful 20 years ago or anything, but coaches seem to have watered them down even more in recent times.

Lane Kiffin and Ole Miss didn’t even really have a spring game. And it makes sense — the vast majority of work and progress is being made in the 14 practices…