Last week was crazy in college football. ESPN went crazy talking about the LSU-Alambama game. Amazingly, it live up to the hype. Number 1 LSU played number 2 Alabama. LSU won on an overtime field goal 9-6. To the average fan, this is very boring. Who would want to watch this game? Any big college football fans watching it were thinking about how it was one of the best defensive matchups ever. It got to the point where you thought that nobody was going to score. Then both quarterbacks made stupid turnovers that gave each team the ball in the red zone. What happened? The defenses once again proved how great they were and held them to field goals. LSU won the game from their defense and kicking. LSU did not miss, while Alabama ended the night 2-6 on field goals. One of them was blocked, so that was not entirely the kicker's fault. Alabama's missed field goals were not even close. They were all over 40 yards in a big pressure situation. I would not be able to do that, but this is what they practice everyday. If they could not handle it, then why does Alabama keep them in? They are the number 2 team in the country. Surely they could recruit more top high school kickers to play for them. Sometimes smart teams make dumb decisions I guess.
This past weekend also gave college football fans the complete opposite of the defensive SEC matchup. That was in the form of the Big 12 showdown between number 3(now number 2)Oklahoma State and number 17 Kansas State. The teams combined for 97 points with Oklahoma State winning on a 23 yard touchdown pass with 2:16 left. Final: Oklahoma State 52, Kansas State 45. Unbelievable.
These scores are why people love college football and sports in general. You can take your pick if you want to watch a defensive showdown between top teams or a wild west shootout between some of the best college football programs in the nation. This is what makes sports so interesting and popular. If the team that we thought was going to win every week won by what we thought they would, there would be no point in watching. The way sports work, is that every team has a chance no matter what there record is. Any team can get hot on anyday which is what the NCAA basketball tournament is all about. I am pretty sure that there has not been one year that anyone has had a completely perfect bracket. There is always at least one upset. Who would have thought that Butler, a number 8 seed, would lose the national championship the past two years. This is why people love sports. That is why I am a fan.
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