Barry Tompkins: Shhhh! College football starts this week

College football starts this week.

That is huge news in Athens, Georgia; Columbus, Ohio; Tuscaloosa, Alabama; and Austin, Baton Rouge, Ann Arbor and Norman. But in San Rafael, Tiburon, Novato, and Sausalito, opening day of the college football season finishes a distant second in anticipation to the Fairfax Photo Club Exhibit and the ever popular Read to a Dog day at the Petaluma Library. (Now I’ve done it. My dog Dottie just heard me mention “read to a dog” and now I’ve got to go to her book club with her).