Rookie revels in spotlight

ESPN would never dare ask any of the top college football teams in the US to switch their game forward from Saturday, no matter how lucrative the television contract.

The dubious privilege of being broadcast live on a Friday night when nobody in the country is watching is only reserved for the lesser universities.

Waco, Texas on the first Friday of last September should have meant just another game for the diehards. As it turned out, anyone who bothered to watch Baylor University edge out the fancied Texas Christian University at home was rewarded with a humdinger.