{"id":7805,"date":"2015-01-10T04:48:44","date_gmt":"2015-01-10T04:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7805"},"modified":"2015-01-10T04:48:44","modified_gmt":"2015-01-10T04:48:44","slug":"what-to-call-college-footballs-big-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7805","title":{"rendered":"What to call college football's big game?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I might be breaking some new ground here, but a thought occurs to me regarding the Big Game set for Monday night to determine the best college football team in the country.<\/p>\n

The game doesn’t have a catchy name. You know, like the Super Bowl?<\/p>\n

My Oregon Ducks are going to play the Ohio State Buckeyes in the first-ever college football playoff championship game. It needs something catchy.<\/p>\n

Let’s flash back for a moment to the first Super Bowl, played in 1967. It wasn’t even called the Super Bowl. It carried the clunky name of “AFL-NFL Championship Game.” The American Football League champs that year were the Kansas City Chiefs; representing the National Football League were the Green Bay Packers.<\/p>\n

The Pack won 35-10 at the Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, which was about two-thirds full for the biggest game in pro football history.<\/p>\n

The AFL and the NFL played three more interleague championship games before the leagues merged in 1970. But someone came up with the name “Super Bowl” in time for the 1968 game between the Packers and the Oakland Raiders.<\/p>\n

I’m open for suggestions on what to call the college football equivalent of the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n

Heck, college basketball has its March Madness and its Final Four; Major League Baseball has its World Series; college baseball has its College World Series; hockey fans know the title series of their sport simply as the Stanley Cup.<\/p>\n

The NCAA has come up with a marketing winner\u00a0with this college football playoff. It figures to smash TV-viewing records Monday night.<\/p>\n

So … let’s give\u00a0college football’s big game a name to make it — and us — all proud.<\/p>\n

Oh, before I forget: Go Ducks!<\/p>\n

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