[Westside]

They do not scrimmage, or have preseason games in college football.

So you don't think that they are screwing the fans now when "Giant State" puts on their schedule a warm-up game that they fans pay fullprice for, and it goes into their overall record as a win against "You don't even belong on the football field State"?

Why do you think these big schools schedule these D2 and D3 schools in their opener? It's because they want to work the kinks out before they have to play a real game! If they scrimmaged or played a preseason game instead, don't you think it would make the quality of the games that they schedule in the regular season that much better.

Instead, the fans get:

Wake Forrest 53 - Presbyterian 13
Miami (FL) 45 - Florida A&M 0
Indiana 51 - Towson 17
Nevada 49 - Eastern Washington 24
Florida State 59 - Samford 6
California 52 - UC Davis 3
Tennessee 50 - Tennessee-Martin 0

These are preseason games, but these teams got a cakewalk game and an easy 1-0 record. If they played a preseason game, they would probably schedule these same teams and then maybe these teams would gamble more with the rest of their schedule.

I'm old school. I don't want a playoff, and I don't want a scrimmage. I love the mismatches. As a fan of a smaller D1 school like EKU, it gives us fans a chance to dream "what if". Yeah the smaller schools hardly ever win, but it does happen: Michigan vs. Appy St, Ole Miss vs Jacksonville St, and EKU vs Louisville (back in the 80's). EKU almost beat Indiana last year. The smaller schools hardly ever win but nobody expects them to. Plus it gives their athletes a chance to play in a larger stadium and test their skills against the best and besides the smaller school gets a large check that is very badly needed for their athletic program.