College Football - A Wild Ride

You Gotta’ Love College Football
9/28/08

In the wacky world of sport, College Football holds it’s own in the realm of “expecting the unexpected”.
Just look back at the last few years and you should agree.
It is early in this year’s season and yes, another wild season is here!
We didn’t see the Michigan loss to Appalachian State scenario to start the season, but their were some upsets early. East Carolina gets the better of West Virginia, and then they barely beat Tulane. Now ECU lost 2 in a row.
Let’s take this weekend for example.
The rankings will look a lot different then they did last week. Personally I don’t care about rankings. Win and that speaks for itself.
Look at LSU last year. They were riding high then lost to Arkansas. Their National Title hope (to many – not me) was lost. A los here and loss there a win here and there by other teams and wham, LSU wins the SEC Title game and is vaulted to the BCS National Title game. Sorry Ohio State, but the rest is history.
This weekend Florida lost to Ole’ Miss. didn’t see that coming. Florida was number 4. Mississippi was not ranked.
Thursday USC lost to Oregon State. Wow. USC was number 1. OSU – not ranked.
Michigan (not ranked) beat Wisconsin (#9). Maryland beat 20th ranked Clemson. Fifteenth ranked Auburn barely beat Tennessee.
Alabama (number 8) manhandled Georgia (number 3). This, to me, actually was not a surprise. It is ok for LSU fans to dislike Nick Saban, but you better respect him. Look what he has done for Alabama.
Oklahoma, Texas and LSU took care of business. No surprise.
ESPN says Alabama might be Number 1. LSU, don’t get mad. Let somebody else wear the target while the season is early. IT might as well be Alabama.
No team is safe in college football. That has been proven over and over.
Let me put a little philosophy in this. Life is College Football. We fumble. We drive. We get penalized. We score. We get it right through the uprights. We miss wide right. We work hard. We bleed. We get injured. We heal. We win. We lose. We play another day.
So as we trod on to next week end, who knows where the College football road will take us. I do know it will be a madcap ride.