Simulated Gameday Experience

A long time ago, back in 2005, I had a completely unknown sports “blog” that was mostly about changes in the BCS and computer ratings in general, with a little content about the ongoing college football season. It was a short-lived experiment, hosted via a livejournal account just to give you an idea of how truly newbie this was, that would see only three posts over all of 2006 before dying out. But if you wanted to know about how I got started writing about college football, there you go. It was every bit as lame as it sounds. The content that was actually decent – the BCS history and computers stuff – will probably show up in a revised format here at some point in the next four months.

It was in 2006 that Chris asked me to start writing for a site he’d created called Left Field Bluffs – the specific meaning of which I’ve honestly never known until reading his Reintroduction this week. The first year’s postings were sporadic and fizzled out quickly, so a year or two later we were back with a mutual friend, Russell, to try to provide consistent content about the national NCAAF landscape. Being the only one of us living west of the Mississippi, I naturally took the Big 12 and Pac 10, and had a pretty good time with that.

Somewhere along the way, I got invited on as the Big 12 writer for Fantasy College Blitz, a gig that’s been good fun and kinda made me pay more attention to personnel beyond just my favorite teams, and individual player statistics related to the college game.

When I relocated to DC this past April, Chris and I tossed around the idea of weekly podcasts and expanding the content on our existing site, and eventually decided we’d outgrown the old blogger site we’d come to know. Due to early technical issues and a complete lack of time to deal with them, Simulated Gameday Experience launched about three months later than we’d hoped, but on the plus side now we can get all the kinks ironed out as this season winds down and be all set for an epic 2010. Or so one can hope.

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