There are very few things in life that can stir emotions within you like college football. For four months a year, millions of Americans decide to put their mental well-being in the hands of a collection of 18- to 24-year-old men they do not know personally. All they know is that they've chosen to wear their preferred uniform.
Sometimes this decision brings joy. Other times it brings pain. But what it always brings as kickoff draws near every week is anxiety.
There's always the nervous energy of the unknown heading into a game. You can never be sure how things will go, and where the rollercoaster will take you. However, while we all feel it, some of us feel it more than others, and each week, The Anxiety Rankings aim to find the five most anxious places in the country.
You'll fail, but try all the same. Somehow, someway, college football's main character has found a way to make himself the center of attention this week. Well, alright, considering LSU is going to Oxford to play Ole Miss this weekend, there was no way on Earth that Lane wasn't going to be the center of attention.
But we have to give Kiffin credit for making things even more interesting. The LSU injury report that was released Wednesday night had a huge surprise on it. Sam Leavitt, who played nearly the entirety of LSU's 45-14 win over Louisiana Tech, was listed as "doubtful." Leavitt seemed fine in the postgame Saturday, and no reports were coming out of Baton Rouge from people who cover the program every day that there was any kind of injury concern.
Not "probable" or "questionable", but "doubtful." Players who have been listed as doubtful in the short history of college injury reports rarely play that week. Yet few believed it to be a real injury. It was obviously another case of Lane being Lane, and flaunting rules and regulations for his own personal amusement.
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