Step one: Wear a Longhorns hat.

There is no step two.

Whenever I wear this hat strangers always talk to me. Sometimes they are USC fans, but more often they are expatriates from the Republic of Texas. I got the hat during my last trip to visit my girlfriend’s family in Texas in order to blend in. Of course, instead of camouflage, the hat served as a beacon saying “Fellow Texan! Please talk to me about football!”

Tired of being embarrassed about not knowing anything about the college football schedule, I was shocked to find no RSS feeds of game schedules. I did find some football schedule OS X widgets, so I thought there must be a feed somewhere. Nope, it turns out that the widget developers scrape the HTML of ESPN pages.

Maybe there are copyright issues at work here (though how anyone could claim a copyright on the schedule of public events is beyond me), or maybe the people at the NCAA and ESPN need to find a clue.