Some of my readers might know I don’t normally pay attention to college sports.  If you don’t know that, it’s because I never write about college sports, so you wouldn’t.

But this year, my alma mater is a really good team. Their place in the rankings could be one digit this year, something that’s happened only eight times since I went to college there, many decades ago.

But I forgot to watch the game yesterday.  So, I went into YouTube TV and looked them up and when I went into the game, Google asked if I wanted to watch the whole game or the key plays.   I said the whole game out of respect for my father who would really hate the notion of just watching key plays.   I was able to watch the first play where my team recovered a kickoff fumble.

Then I was distracted. 

A few hours later, I decided maybe I better just watch the key plays, and I noticed that Google did not include the first play of the game in their key plays.  It was a high scoring game, so the 32 key plays were mostly really good passing plays by each team’s quarterback. 

Google’s AI didn’t realize that a fumble, on the first play of the game, could set the tone of the whole game.  

So let me thank the notion of my dad’s integrity (at least as it relates to watching sports).  He helped me remember because companies like Google don’t want to hire part-time interns from colleges (that would probably choose the key plays for free), we humans are being deceived by our mathematical equations.