As I sat in my economics class on Thursday, I was in a state of nervous excitement.

While opportunity cost could be a riveting topic at times, I was actually daydreaming about the upcoming start of the college football season later that night.

I love college football for many reasons, but especially because it’s the only sport I can think of where a loss in the first game of the season could spell doom for your chances to win the national championship at the end of the year.

Last night students from dozens of universities watched in excitement as their team’s ultimate goal for the national title either slipped away or came one step closer to fruition. I can truly say I envy them because (and not to beat a dead horse) the Bearcat faithful will seemingly never have a football team to call their own.

While I understand the economic pitfalls of starting a football program from the ground up, and the realization that Binghamton University will most likely never compete on the scale of Notre Dame and Penn State, it doesn’t mean BU football would not be successful.

We all want a bigger and better future for our school, and I truly believe that having a football presence on Saturday afternoons could drastically improve school unity and exposure even if we just played against our SUNY rivals Albany and Stony Brook in the lower FCS division of college football.

So next time I’m daydreaming in economics class, I’ll hope somebody in the administration will reconsider the opportunity costs and bring football to Binghamton University.