Yesterday was the best day of the college football season with the most amazing ending of a major game in years.
People ask me why I watch college football. Yesterday's games were the reason. Ohio State, undefeated at number THREE yesterday came within a hair's breath of being knocked out of title contention by unranked Michigan. Michigan made the gutsiest call of the day after they had just scored a touchdown with 30 seconds left. Instead of going for the tie with an extra point to send the game into overtime, they elected to go with the two-point conversion for the WIN instead.
The ball was intercepted in the end zone. Ohio State won. I have rarely seen that call at any level. It was amazing.
The better game came later. Undefeated number one Alabama went for a 56-yard game-winning field goal with ONE second left on the clock. The field goal was just short and to the left, BUT an alert Auburn player fielded it NINE yards deep in the end zone and returned it for the winning touchdown.
It was the most amazing football play I have ever seen. The Vikings gave up a touchdown like that a few years ago to San Diego. But it was the timing of the play that may it so surreal. It knocked Alabama (which had won the last two national championships) OUT of the title hunt, and turned the the BCS standings upside down. The only thing that would have been cooler is if Ohio State had lost the Michigan game as well.
NOW there are only TWO undefeated teams left: Florida State and Ohio State. It looks like the BCS standings are going to take care of themselves AGAIN. People who complain about needing a four game playoff (the one that they get starting next year) just don't understand how incredible what they have now IS. Yesterday's unbelievable games mattered because there is NO playoff.
Ohio State elected to go with an easy schedule this year, and it appears their gamble paid off. They'll move up to number two in the rankings and be the in the championship game. Auburn, with one loss, will move up to number three after knocking off Alabama. Alabama will drop to number four. That's the way it should be. They couldn't have planned it better.
I feel sorry that Auburn, after that great win, can't be in the title game, but I've said it all along. In college football the ENTIRE season matters.
And that was proven again yesterday. Next season, with the playoff, all of this greatness will go away.
That is so sad.
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