Published 2:39 pm Friday, September 20, 2024 By Scooter Hobbs So far as we know, and according to reliable “sources” as well as respected internet scuttlebutt, LSU is still in Louisiana and does its football bidding in the Southeastern Conference. Go ahead, take them at their word for it. But you can’t really trust anybody these days.
Take UCLA. The Bruins will be at LSU Saturday afternoon for football fare. Something a little different for Tigers fans.
But it’s not what it seems. UCLA is one of your glamour schools by any ranking — a beautiful campus convenient to beaches, golf courses and future Hollywood starlets, nestled up there amongst the likes of Santa Monica, Marina Del Ray and ..
. well, you get the idea. Opposite from the beaches there’s a mountain range view of some renown, fairly pleasant on the eyes if you’re into that sort of thing.
So of course the Bruins play their home games in the Rose Bowl, where they look forward to the sun going down for the gorgeous sunset, not just for getting things dark. Granted, it’s 25 miles of a tangled traffic jam away from campus and they don’t have a floral-themed parade for every game. But, again, you get the idea.
It’s also says here that UCLA is the No. 1-rated public university in the nation for, uh, academics, I guess it is — not that that has anything do with anything of football importance — but perhaps it’s a nice conversation starter around the tailgate. A lot of Nobel Prizes and Pulitzers to s.