Bless you, college football. While pro sporting events slip further and further into the abyss of sanitized corporate “family entertainment,” the experience of going to a college game at the local stadium remains as boorishly fun as ever.

Having said that, this list of college football traditions makes no sense to me. Do opposing teams actually harbor ill will toward the legendary “dotting of the I” by The Ohio State University Marching Band sousaphonist? The author even suggests they should cross the T instead. Last time I checked, there was no T in “Ohio.”

The author even hates the Stanford Tree, and by extension assumes opposing teams do as well. Where does this hate come from? It’s a tree, for crying out loud. I’ll give you ridiculous, which is the point in the first place, but not hateful.

Unless you’re from Cal, that is. Oski vs. Tree remains one of the classic mascot fights of any college sport.

There were five undefeated teams heading into Thursday’s college football slate. One of them, the top-ranked 9-0 Ohio State Buckeyes, is the favorite to win the national championship at 6-5 odds. The other four must be getting the shaft, because 7-1 LSU is the second favorite at 9-4 odds.

Actually, the Tigers might be the best team in the nation. They’re No. 1 on the Fremeau Efficiency Index (FEI), which measures Game Efficiency as a function of a team’s winning (or losing) margins, and factors in quality of opposition.

Your other four undefeated teams are Boston College (7-1 title odds), Arizona State (6-1), Kansas (Field, 9-1) and Hawaii (75-1). Here’s where they and OSU rank in FEI:

5. Arizona State
7. Ohio State
9. Boston College
14. Kansas
50. Hawaii

If you like the FEI formula, then you should definitely like the Sun Devils at five times the championship payout of the Buckeyes.