On Judgment Day, the righteous are supposed defeat the morally corrupt, and so on. And if that’s true, you’ll see for yourself this Saturday.
At noon, Yale will take-on Harvard in the 123rd playing of The Game. And if (like most of the country), you don’t care about Ivy League football, you only have to wait until 3:30, when Michigan takes on Ohio State for a bid to the National Championship game.

I know that when the Bible talks about Judgment Day, they weren’t talking about football. But we’re in the middle of a drought of religious holidays, so why not spend some time in the church of Saturday afternoon football?

If you don’t have any pre-existing allegiance to any of the teams that are playing, you can have your pick of whichever rivalry you’d like. You can get into the Harvard-Yale rivalry, with its proper Ivy League history, tailgate debauchery, sweater-vested alumni and rap wars.

If you like your sports rivalries on a larger scale, you can watch the number one and number two college football teams in the country battle it out on national television to see which team will finally suffer its first loss of the season.

(mgoblue.com)

I have to confess that I’d choose baseball over football any day. But I can’t abandon ESPN until April. So this weekend, I’ve picked college football to care about.

As a result of a grandfather and freshman year roommate who are obsessed with Michigan, I’ll be rooting for the Wolverines. But regardless of how much you care about sports, college football is a pretty easy one to get into, at least for a day.

Who doesn’t want to watch kids their own age battle it out with the weight of entire campuses and alumni networks on their shoulders? It’s why even the most apathetic Penn fans suddenly find themselves sitting in Franklin Field. If watching is free (at least on television), college sports can be addictive. A good rivalry is the best way to get into it.

As a college football convert, I swear that you don’t have to know every intricacy of the rulebook to have fun with it. And while anyone outside the Ivy League will probably try to convince you that the Harvard-Yale game isn’t a “real” rivalry, not all of us have the strength to deal with the intensity of the Big 10. So pick whichever game you feel more comfortable with. I promise, they’re both (somewhat) equally respectable.

The Spin will be back on Monday morning. Have a nice weekend!

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