Tuesday Commentary: College football’s wacky weekend
My father imparted a lot of wisdom upon me as I grew up. One thing that stuck with me was his confidence in the complete randomness of sports.
“There are no givens in sports,” he’d say. “None except for this: On any given day, any given team can beat any other given team.”
What a perfect way to sum up one of the craziest weekends in college football in recent memory.
A weekend in which six top 25 teams lost to unranked teams, including then No. 1 USC, No. 4 Florida and No. 9 Wisconsin.
Has the parity of college football ever been clearer than over the past two years? When a Football Championship Subdivision team opens the season by beating the No. 5 team in the nation at home (Appalachian State over Michigan last year), then you should know that nothing is certain in the college football world.
northernstar.com
9/30/08
Magnolia Tribune
