Great College Football Weekend

I remember some chump telling me that college football wasn’t worth watching. Of course, same loser also told me that Styx was the greatest rock band ever which could be true if by rock band you only mean Styx and Nelson. As for college football, this past weekend certainly proved him wrong. Sure there were some clunkers, but for the most part, it was one of the best days of college football viewing I’ve seen in a while. Obviously, the best game was Texas beating Ohio State by three. Neither of the teams wanted to lose as they slugged it out until the whistle. Vince Young moved to the head of my mythical Heisman ballot with his performance. Yet, during this game, I’m also flipping over to the Arizona State/LSU game that would also go down to the wire as LSU throws a 39 yard touchdown pass on 4th and 10 with just over a minute left. Not only that, Alabama is scoring the last 20 points of the game to beat Southern Miss 31-20. Not to mention trying to keep up with the NASCAR race which will determine the last of the ten teams that will be in the points chase. My channel changing finger is worn out.

And it started way before then. The Marshall/Kansas State game began at 10:30 in the morning, and Marshall drove to the Kansas State 21 yard line with 9 seconds left and trailing 21-19. Non-aggressive coaches would have simply attempted a 38 yard field goal for the win, but Marshall knew that the only way to have a game losing interception was to throw a pass. Which they did. But no time for worrying about that. Notre Dame is going into the Big House and knocking off Michigan. And making them look bad. I don’t really like Notre Dame, but I don’t Michigan either, so I’ll take it. At the same time I get to watch Oklahoma try to dump another game to a mid-level conference foe. They don’t, but still look like crap. Later in the afternoon, North Carolina invades Georgia Tech (who was coming off a beat down of Auburn at Auburn) and almost pulls off the upset. Steve Spurrier takes a mediocre looking South Carolina team to Georgia and falls short by only two. The amazing thing is that South Carolina keeps it close with defense. Finally, Oregon State kicks a field goal with 1:03 to go to beat Boise State. And this was all just leading up to the evening games.

However, as I said there was some clunkers. Oklahoma looked really bad. They needed 220 yards from Adrian Peterson, and yet were only beating Tulsa by 2 with just over 3 minutes left. This was a week after losing to TCU. TCU celebrated that win by losing 21-10 to SMU who was coming off a loss to Big 12 bottom-feeder Baylor. Of course, that begs the question, since Oklahoma lost to a team that lost to a team that lost to Baylor, is Oklahoma now the bottom feeder of the Big 12? And while it didn’t happen on Saturday, Pitt’s loss to Ohio on Friday showed that Dave Wannstedt doesn’t need the NFL to fail as a coach. I also can’t wait for the big UK/Indiana slugfest this coming weekend. Both teams were trailing in the fourth quarter to Division 1-AA teams. Every year UK hangs around with someone they shouldn’t to make people think they are really improving. Then they crap in their mess kit again. It wouldn’t bother me except this year they play UL tough, and now they’re going to screw up our strength of schedule.