College Football Notes

Here is a “tie in” likely nobody but me is getting.

Yesterday one day after actor and former UCLA quarterback Mark Harmon turned 65 (we all should look like him at that age or younger), for the first time in 35 years as many as two of the top 5 teams in the opening Associated Press college football poll fell in the first week.

First Houston upset third ranked Oklahoma and then Wisconsin did the same to fifth ranked LSU.

That event (2 of the top 5 losing in the first week)  also happened 44 years earlier, then 4th ranked Arkansas lost to USC which was eighth in the opening poll. The Trojans proved more than “99 and three quarters percent effective,” as that team was arguably the best in college football history and won the title that season.

In a night game that opening week, Mark Harmon was the quarterback as UCLA shocked two time defending champion and opening poll, top ranked Nebraska, certainly one of the great 3 year teams in college annals.

Tomorrow a post on a superb show, “One Funny Mother.”

Mark Harmon pictured above.