In his column today on ESPN.com, Mark Schlabach wonders aloud why everyone is hating on Hawaii, while everyone seems to be giving Kansas the benefit of the doubt. If he doesn’t see the difference between the two teams, he really ought to consider another vocation.

Schlabach starts his column with Hawaii coach June Jones talking about all of the teams Hawaii wanted to schedule that wouldn’t schedule them. Among them, he claims, are Michigan and USC. I think to allow Jones to make these claims without verifying any of these claims or the reasoning behind those decisions — not the first of which is I’m sure that USC didn’t really want to fly to Honolulu to play the Warriors — is pretty shotty work by Schlabach.

The reason why people are (finally) starting to believe in Kansas is that in a matter of two weeks we will see if Kansas is for real. They play the game of the week Saturday against #3 Missouri and if they win, will have to beat Oklahoma in the Big 12 Championship. And if they survive those two games, they’re for real.

See, in college football, being undefeated isn’t enough if you’re not playing anybody.  If that’s not Hawaii’s fault and they really can’t get anyone to schedule them then I’m sorry about that but them’s the breaks.

Do you really want to see Georgia or Oregon or West Virginia or Ohio State play a team that needed to go to overtime to beat San Jose State? Me either.

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