The Perfect Weekend

Friday night as I was boarding my flight home, I expected a mild weekend ahead of me.  Hours of studying at the library complimented with a college football weekend that was average at best.  Two hours later I stepped off my flight to a flurry of tweets, #UPSETALERT.  By the time I crossed the New York – Connecticut state line, Brandon Weeden had thrown his third interception, this time in overtime.  It put the Cyclones within striking distance of being the next BCS buster.

Iowa State's upset win on Friday night triggered
a weekend of madness for college football.

 A few minutes later, Jeff Woody crossed the goal line trigging eruptions of euphoria for fans in Eugene, Norman and Tuscaloosa.  24 hours later, two of those cities were joining the fan base from Stillwater in utter disbelief.  The loss of the Cowboys was already stirring up the BCS rankings, yet the losses of the Ducks and Sooners sent the BCS system into a downwards spiral at warped speed.      

If you are a hater of the BCS system, like me, you were going off your rocker all day on Saturday as one top team lost after another.  This had to be one of the most memorable weekends of upsets in recent history.  National championship bids and Heisman hopeful dreams were all dashed at the hands of under dogs this weekend.   As long as it was not your team going down, you could not have asked for a better weekend.

We are now only five losses away from utter chaos for the BCS system (if there wasn’t enough already).  Within the next two weeks, the top five teams in the BCS rankings could all lose.  As of now, LSU is One, Bama Two, Arkansas Three, Oklahoma State Four, and Virginia Tech Five. I want to stress how insane this could be.  I know I wrote about this on Friday but imagine the following scenario.

USC quarterback, Matt Barkley, had one of the
best games of his career in Saturday's upset
win at Oregon.  

 Currently, it is very clear who will be in the national championship game, Alabama – LSU.  Yet it is very possible that both of these teams go down next week.  Bama travels to their most hated rival, Auburn and LSU has to play Arkansas followed by a matchup with Georgia in the SEC championship game if they can get past the Razorbacks.    I see LSU winning at Arkansas handing them their second loss but losing to Aaron Murray and the Bulldogs in Atlanta handing.  This would give LSU only one loss but it would happen in the last game of the season.  Also that weekend, Oklahoma State will lose to Oklahoma on the last game of the season receiving its second loss.  Lastly, Virginia Tech, the most overrated team in the top ten, will lose in the ACC championship game for a second time this season.

So in case you did not follow, LSU would have one loss that but that loss would come in the last game of the season.  Arkansas, Alabama, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Oregon, and Virginia Tech would all have two losses. The only other team with one loss would be Stanford, who barely survived a home game last night against Cal.  Then there is undefeated Houston and one loss Boise State.  Go ahead; pick your national championship because I have no idea who it should be.  This weekend was exactly what every college football fan needed, hope.  Who knows what will happen next, but it is bound to keep fans on the edge of their seats.  Either way, a playoff is looking more and more appealing to the BCS officials.