Campus Confidential

A phenomena is beginning just a few hours.

25 hours of college football. Call it a telethon, marathon, Christmas in August, the fourth layer of Hell. Call it whatever you want, but you can't escape it. Don't leave the TV on tonight when you fall asleep or ESPN will take on Freddy Krueger-like powers and invade your dreams.

If it's a telethon, somewhere Jerry Lewis is steaming. If it's a marathon, Lance Armstrong is pissed because his marathon was 26.2, not 25. If it's Christmas in August, it'd imagine the Christian faith would have something to say. Same for Dante if it's that layer we talked about. So who knows what it is...besides overkill.

If you try to watch the whole thing, you'll know Rece Davis' middle name by the time LSU faces Miss. St. Thursday night. You'll be pitching Hawaii for the BCS if you watch from 3 a.m. to 5 a.m., when they'll likely only talk about the only part of the country that's awake. You will still want the network to fire Lou Holtz.

I'll just copy and paste the ESPN schedule about it here, per its media release:

8/29
7 p.m.
College Football Live: Live shots from the ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNU Thursday night game telecasts; live coverage of the USC practice and interviews with coaches and players; live coverage of Louisville, Florida State and Mississippi State pep rallies plus interviews with coaches and players from both teams; live interviews with various coaches, including West Virginia’s Rich Rodriguez; Notre Dame coaches roundtable with host Brent Musburger and former coaches Ara Parseghian, Lou Holtz and Charlie Weis.

11 p.m.
SportsCenter

8/30
midnight
College Football Live

12:30 a.m.
NFL Live

1 a.m.
SportsCenter

3 a.m.
College Football Live: Live updates with live interviews with Hawaii coach June Jones and Hawaii quarterback Colt Brennan

5 a.m.
SportsCenter

Noon
College Football Live

3 p.m.
Outside the Lines

3:30 p.m.
College Football Live

4 p.m.
NFL Live

4:30 p.m.
Rome is Burning

5 p.m.
Around the Horn

5:30 p.m.
PTI

6 p.m.
SportsCenter

7 p.m.
College Football Live

8 p.m.
#2 LSU at Mississippi State

Three things: If it's 25 hours of college football, will SportsCenter, PTI, NFL Live, etc. be exclusively college football? "Welcome to NFL Live: College Football Edition! I'm Trey Wingo and I want to kill my producer." No?

Second: Why am I slighted so much? When I'm on the 8:10 JetBlue flight to Richmond tomorrow and I get to enjoy my 36 channels of DirectTV, including ESPN, I have to watch SportsCenter, not hours 13 and 14, where they would likely be discussing Ian Johnson's wedding decor.

Finally, this whole thing is presented by TiVo. At first I thought it was a paradox that a device that cuts out commercials was advertising, but then it hit me. They don't need commercials because it's presented by them. Genius. Beating their own system.

I'm done with this, I've given it too much.

I'm slated for a 10-question Q&A with Cal's DeSean Jackson this afternoon. I'll probably post it tomorrow morning, and I'll make this a weekly thing with a big-name player. Give me your suggestions and any questions you'd like me to ask DeSean. Interview should go down about 4ish.