No sure thing as a sure thing

One of my biggest pet peeves in sports is can this team from 1996 beat this team from 2008 or today?

You can't decide it and its all talk. It is fluff to fill the weeks before games and to fill the void of the recruiting cycle between signing day and the first kickoff. The best thing about American football is finality.  Basketball, hockey and baseball you need several games to decide who the better team is. Teams don't play their hardest to decide the winner until they can take the series home. Some teams have to play 7 times within a one-two week stretch to see who is better!

In college football the term eyetest gets passed around a lot. You can visibly see who the better team is. You can see when momentum swings and the team that was playing awful and getting pushed around on both lines of scrimmage wakes up. They make plays, hit harder and just look better as a unit. The craziest games in this regard were when the teams that were not expected to pass the eyetest beat the overwhelming favorite.


2007

My favorite upset of all time. Standford playing at USC. USC was ranked number one. The best team in college football as chosen by the polls. Standford was a 41 point underdog and still drove down the field with less than a minute to go to knock off the Trojans.


But the biggest upset this weekend didn't happen in Cali but instead in Badger Country. #6 Winsconsin lost to BYU. Steve Young is grinning like a fool somewhere watching his alma mater take out a top ten team on the road. 

BYU is a proud independent program but upsets like these can put schools on the map.

See State, Applacian. They went into the Big House and beat the Wolverines.

Beautiful recap by espn on that upset. It really ties up the mood for the college football world going into the game. Especially with that quote from Adam Sandler.


And the radio call that still gives me goosebumps. Hearing announcers who are paid to not show bias even for the school they are paid to call games to lose their ever loving minds just showcases how big of an event this was.

Upsets are some of the best things to happen in college football. They are sudden, chaotic and beautiful like a summer thunderstorm in a drought. You never know when your team will get soaked. Appy State almost took out Penn State a few weeks ago in Happy Valley. You never know.