IMPROVING ON PERFECTION?:

TMQ (Gregg Easterbrook, 12/09/03, NFL.com)

Colgate 28, Western Illinois 27 (Division I-AA) -- Colgate advances in a game played in a blinding snowstorm; spectators had difficulty seeing the field. Located in pastoral Hamilton, N.Y., Colgate has a picture-perfect hillside campus that is among the prettiest in American higher education. If you want to feel you're going to college on a movie set, Colgate is the school for you.

I may have spoken too soon in saying that since the Colgate undefeated, untied, unscored-upon team was the best football squad ever that this year's team could hardly be Colgate's best ever. That ignored the fact that this team would be 16-0 if they win the championship--likely more wins than any college team has ever had previously. Meanwhile, Mr. Easterbrook understates the beauty of the campus, which is easily the loveliest in Creation.

Posted by Orrin Judd at December 10, 2003 10:01 AM