{"id":3740,"date":"2011-11-20T07:52:43","date_gmt":"2011-11-20T11:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/?p=3740"},"modified":"2011-11-20T07:52:43","modified_gmt":"2011-11-20T11:52:43","slug":"why-i-love-college-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2011\/11\/20\/why-i-love-college-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Love College Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cyclones.  Cowboys.  On \u2018paper\u2019 not really worth watching.  Friday night I kept checking in on the game during the first half, between Skyrim sessions, and didn\u2019t see anything captivating, worth holding my time or attention.  However, it had been a long week, so I decided to just veg out, have a few cold ones, turn off Skyrim for the night, and watch the beat down in the second half.  <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/college-football\/story\/_\/id\/7253650\/iowa-state-cyclones-shakes-bcs-race\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/espn.go.com\/college-football\/story\/_\/id\/7253650\/iowa-state-cyclones-shakes-bcs-race', 'What a reward');\" target=\"_blank\">What a reward<\/a>!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Somehow, Bedlam arrived two weeks early, and it was delivered by the most unlikely of teams. Iowa State, which had been 0-56-2 against opponents ranked in the top six of the Associated Press top 25 poll since 1936, stunned the No. 2 Cowboys 37-31 in double overtime at Jack Trice Stadium.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Saturday.  First, Georgia escapes, which allowed the Dawgs to capture the SEC East.  This is a much different team than the one that started the season 0-2.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday night I was watching the Texas game (very disappointing) of FX, and checking in on the USC \u2013 Oregon game, and FX would post the occasional coverage of \u2018\u2026 those Baylor Bears are beating the Sooners \u2026\u2019<\/p>\n<p>What a <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/college-football\/story\/_\/id\/7260471\/week-12-upsets-create-bcs-chaos\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/espn.go.com\/college-football\/story\/_\/id\/7260471\/week-12-upsets-create-bcs-chaos', 'crazy two days of college football');\" target=\"_blank\">crazy two days of college football<\/a>, which is why I love college football.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This season has officially lost its mind, which isn\u2019t such a bad thing. We thought we had clear-cut national title matchup (unbeaten LSU against unbeaten Oklahoma State). Now we have LSU and BCS bedlam.<\/p>\n<p>There are the once-beatens \u2014 Bama, Arkansas, Oklahoma State and, sure, why not, Stanford, Virginia Tech and Boise State. And by the way, Houston is 11-0.<\/p>\n<p>So here\u2019s what we know going into the final two weeks of the regular season: we don\u2019t know anything.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From a UGA standpoint, they gave to travel to ATL to take on the Bumble Bees, and they damn sure better bring their A-Game, or there will be an upset.  Then of course there is that little date in the Georgia Dome for a BCS birth.<\/p>\n<p>Go Dawgs!<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cyclones. Cowboys. On \u2018paper\u2019 not really worth watching. Friday night I kept checking in on the game during the first half, between Skyrim sessions, and didn\u2019t see anything captivating, worth holding my time or attention. However, it had been a long week, so I decided to just veg out, have a few cold ones, turn &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2011\/11\/20\/why-i-love-college-football\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why I Love College Football<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-3740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-uga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3741,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3740\/revisions\/3741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}