Break it down?

With a great week of college football games coming up, I'm listening to as much sports radio as possible, watching TV looking forward to what people have to say. And I have to say, there's one phrase that drives me nuts as much as any: Breaking it down. Everyone uses it and it nauseates me. Breaking down this matchup. Breaking down the rosters. Someone was even going to break down a NASCAR race.

Once upon a time it was probably a nice fresh phrase, a different way of saying 'we're going to give you some in depth analysis' but once it's been used, everyone else says Ohhhhh, I like that, I'm going to have to use it. And in everyone's rush to sound fresh and original, they all sound alike. So instead what they end up saying is 'look at me, I cannot come up with anything imaginitive so I'm going to dip into my cliche' bank instead.'

Welcome to Cliche' Hell.

Not that I'm necessarily any better, but I promise this one thing: I'm going to give 110% effort in not using that worn out phrase. It won't be easy, but if I can do it one post at a time.

Know what's scary to admit? I don't know how many sports columns and such I've ever seen that did the whole cliche' thing tongue in cheek like that, but it's enough to probably make it a... omg.... cliche'.

I'm sorry everyone.

That said, so far today college football has been awesome. Ohio State is struggling, West Virginia is struggling. I won't group Nebraska in that since they're not a top 5 team even though so far they ARE struggling.

Which of course brings me to a totally different subject. The curse of the pro style offense. It seems like the rule of thumb in the NFL is the only time you can move the ball is with 2 minutes left to go in the half or game. Why can't my guys look this good the rest of the game?

Enough of all that. Good luck, Florida AND Troy in tonight's title game. And... Go Big Red for the 2nd half.