Johnny Manziel

The NCCA did not find any clear evidence that he accepted money from promoters for signing his autograph at sports shows. They did decide to suspend him for the first half of this Saturday's game because he "allowed" the promoters to use his name in advertising for those sports shows.

Of course he had NO WAY of stopping these men from using his name, and they made out like bandits for selling stuff HE autographed.

Texas A&M decided to accept the penalty just to get the whole incident over with, though both they and Johnny felt that "Johnny Football" did nothing wrong.

Manziel was the first ever freshman to win the Heismann Trophy last season. IF no other penalties are discovered in the NCAA's ongoing investigation, he is the odds on favorite to win it again this year.

College starts their season this weekend and I'm looking forward to several weeks worth of really good Saturday match-ups. I don't like college football in general, but I do LOVE it when number one ranked teams get beat on a seemingly weekly basis.

Those games are important and that's what makes it fun.

This is the last season of BCS standings. Next year, there will be a playoff series determining who will be number one at the end of the season.

And at that point I'll stop watching college football. All of the regular season drama will be gone. NONE of the early season or regular season major match-ups will matter. And college football will become as dull as every other college sport.

I'll just have to enjoy this season all the more.

And I can't believe those who pushed for the playoff are fans of the sport at all.