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Winds of change are blowing again.(College Football)

The Sporting News

| September 13, 2004 | Hayes, Matt | COPYRIGHT 2004 Sporting News Publishing Co. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

So we piled in the car and started this uneasy journey. The wife and I, three kids and a 13-year-old dog who shakes at the sight of rain. Drove 15 hours through every back road imaginable from Orlando to Charlotte just to get out of the path of some windbag named Frances.

Come on, if 2.5 million people are going to flee Florida, how about a storm name with some oomph? Boy, that Frances sure delivered a punch.

OK, the real reason we left: Big storm plus loss of power equals no college football on the tube. Either drive through maddening bumper-to-bumper traffic to watch the first week of college football, or stay and drop another game of Scrabble. You get ...

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