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The Fourth Wall
By Tony he RR
Sports Editor
So I don’t really need to say it
but I’m going to anyway: The 2007
college football season was the
most incredibly unpredictable,
utterly frustrating, and chaotically
turbulent in recent history. I
believe the best way to
commemorate the irregularity is to
create a timeline. So, if may...
Week 1: History was made
from the beginning when the
defending Division I-AA (three
years straight...and yes I said
Division I-AA. ..and sorry I meant
FCS) Champion Appalachian State
Mountaineers knocked off an
unsuspecting #5 Michigan. To
accentuate this embarrassment—
and this is great—the
Mountaineers wound up losing
two games in their division; to
Wofford and Georgia Southern.
Who the hell are Wofford and
Georgia Southern??
Week 2: Asif ASU didn’t turn
the BCS world upside down
already (they took Michigan from
39-7 smackdown from the Oregon
Ducks. Their season’s shot, right?
The biggest story, however, had to
be the upstart South Florida Bulls
team going 2-0 with a 26-23 win over
#23 Auburn on the road. Who do
they think they are? #11 Georgia’s
loss to South Carolina and #22
Boise State’s loss to Washington
turned some heads as well.
Week 3: The highlight of the
week here has to be Utah’s
obliteration of #11 UCLA. The
Bruins saw their season’s hopes
slip away after getting thumped 44-
6. Second to this carnage has to
be the Kentucky Wildcats season-
spoiling upset over #9 Louisville
and its gun-slinging offense. One
College and its relatively seamless
victory over the 15%-ranked
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets.
Week 4: Since this was a
comparatively “normal” week I’11
‘toncentrate on what we were all
thinking about on Saturday,
September 22. The 10%-ranked
Penn State Nittany Lions—who
have a very realistic path to the
BCS Championship—Ilose 14-9 to
the briived and battered Michigan
Wolverines. What gives? At risk
of concentrating on one of a
hundred reasons why Penn State
should have won this game, I will
simply say that I would like to think
we could take care of business
against a team that loses toa I-AA
foe and gets blown out the
following weekend. Does this
indicate the decadence of the Big
Ten? Ohio State’s BCS
Championship performance and
future seasons will have to say, but
I’m leaning towards yes for now.
Oh, and in another stunner, #18
Louisville loses 38-35 to
SYRACUSE. Is there something
in the Gatorade?
Week 5: I’m not kidding; I
think someone released a video
called “How to Coach Football”. Or
maybe “How to Lose a Game”. The
jury’s out.
Now forget about #21 Penn
State (loses 27-20 to Illinois. ..come
on). Think about a dominating #3
Oklahoma going down in a
heartbreaker to COLORADO.
Think about #10 Rutgers (one of
2007’s BCS darlings) getting beat’
fairly handily by the Maryland
Terrapins. Think #7 Texas getting
thrashed in a 41-21 demoralization
against Kansas State in their own
backyard. Think#21 South Florida
beating a BCS-bound #5 West
Virginia. Think about a formidable
#4 Florida getting edged by the
Auburn Tigers. This is madness
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