41 plays of suffocating dominance sans one 66-yard hiccup for six that we’ll dissect like it’s the freakin’ Zapruder Film.
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OK, open up your laptop and go to peacocktv.com.
No, you don’t have to type out ‘www.’ I mean, you can if you want…you just don’t have to. This isn’t 1999. Know what, it’s not a big deal. Just get to the Peacock homepage. OK, good.
All right, up in the upper right there, click on your account profile. Yeah, the upper right. Right ther…no….yeah, right there. Click the blue bird. You’re the blue bird. See it’s got your name right underneath.
Guarantee games are the worrrrrrrst.
But, everyone plays them, and until no one plays them, everyone will continue to play them. College football coaches take no prisoners and spare no expense to get a chance at a playoff berth/shot at a natty, and if that means putting a win on the schedule that barely qualifies as such, kinda like Penn State’s 63-7 pasting of FCS Delaware, consider it done.
While these games have seemingly little value for folks other than the true football sickos (hi, guys), 6-year-olds who are learning the game or the families of the third-teamers who actually get to see their sons play, they can be mildly instructive when it comes to A) gauging the overall health of the program by the respective quality levels of its depth chart and B) seeing how fundamentally prepared/mentally disciplined each of those levels are between the whistles.