Man I don't like all this talk of moving The Game to the middle of the season. I don't know if there is any thing to all the beliefs floating around that these are trial balloon leaks or not. If they are, quick, someone prick them, before they float very high and one the greatest traditions in college football gets marginalized in October.

As I said below, if I were Commissioner for A Day, I would put them both in opposite divisions but keep The Game the last Saturday of the season as it is now. Yea, once in a while they would play twice, but as I said below, the only thing better than one Ohio-State Michigan game would be two! Besides the Cleveland Plain Dealer writer recently published a column which says an analysis shows that would have only happened 3 or 4 times in the last 17 years.

Yea you say, but it wouldn't be fair to turn around and play again the next week. Well, what if they are in the same division and played the last game? Would it be fair to the winner of that last game, be it a bruised and battered OSU or Michigan, to play in the championship, say a Nebraska or Penn State that had finished with a cakewalk against Indiana or Minnesota their last game. Think not.

The "playing again the next week" problem and the equalization of the last game of both divisions could be solved by a two week period between the last season and the title game. Simply do away with the byes, move the end of the season up (or the title back) and leave OSU-Mich where it is at the end of the year with each team in a separate division. In most years they wouldn't play twice, but in the few they do, now imagine what a money maker that second game would be for the league. Imagine the hype. Game one one team ran the ball all over the place. Well, the other team would have two weeks to scheme to stop that. Could they? Endless fodder for hype for the game? Endless sports columns to build it up.

And whoever played in the championship, OSU, Mich, or anyone else, they all would go into the game with equal footing and rest.

There, that was easy to solve. Maybe they should appoint me commissioner!