The Back Nine comes at you after a wonderful Christmas, although the one thing I wished for I didn’t get – transparency in the SEC when it comes to officiating. Bah, humbug!
10. As we head down the road to the end of 2020, I think it is important to remind everybody that the virus doesn’t have a calendar. We’re still living day-to-day, including the distraction of sports because we have no idea what tomorrow will bring. It has seemed awfully strange (ooh, Moody Blues reference coming – “Isn’t life strange? A turn of the page”) that Florida is playing a football game Wednesday and also an SEC opening basketball game at the same time. Football starts at 8 p.m. and basketball at 9 and I’d bet big money that when basketball ends football will be starting the fourth quarter. I don’t sense any real excitement about this Cotton Bowl game, but I can give you three reasons why it is a big deal.