Frankly, my effort in the last year has been nothing short of embarrassing but I’m hoping to make up for lost time. I even set up a Twitter account so you know I mean business. You can follow at twitter.com/offthepond.

You can check out team schedules along with a season outlook for each team. I’ve also provided links to buy game tickets, airfare and hotels (hey, who said I had to do everything for free?).

On that note, I’m getting a little advertisier this year (and making up words). Hopefully, it’s not a distraction and I promise to make up for it with more material.

I’m hoping to bring some good research to the table for posts from time to time. God knows I’ve wasted enough time looking up meaningless stats over the years so I might as well share what I find. Look for a ridiculously time consuming project on this decade’s performances by each of the BCS conferences. I promise it won’t disappoint.

Finally, we’ll see if I can get FOTB out of retirement. She was lazier than me last year.

Enjoy football everyone…less than a month away!