Just Another Weekend in College Football

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College Football... Any given Saturday... or sometimes Friday... But those are just minor details.

Big slate of important games this weekend, Auburn took on Alabama, Oregon played Arizona, and Boise had it's last challenge of the season verse Nevada; all in one Friday night, and what a crazy Friday it would be.

Let's start with Auburn Bama, and what a game that was. I missed the first half because I was getting my Tim Tebow on... and by that I mean I was getting hit many times while completing passes. But what I missed was Bama jump out to a 24-0 lead that was a Mark Ingram fumble away from being 31-0. It looked like Auburn was going down...

But see folks, they play four quarters in this crazy game of football, and what ensued was pretty miraculous. Auburn rallied to take a 28-27 lead on the Crimson Tide and injured quarterback Greg McElroy, who had been tearing up the Auburn secondary. So when Bama needed a game winning drive, they couldn't turn to the senior quarterback. They had to turn to the back up A.J. McCarron, a redshirt freshman. Well the young kid couldn't lead the rally for Bama and Auburn was let off the hook on the road against an Alabama team that should have won.

Then the next game on this slate of Friday was Oregon Arizona... it was a good game til my friend and I went to go get pizza at about the end of the third quarter. We get back and it's three minutes into the fourth... and it's a blow out. Shocker, Oregon wins again.

But the game of the week took place in Reno, Nevada. Boise State with a win would jump TCU for sure. Boise looked to continue it's miraculous run, looking for it's 25th straight win.

Boise jumped out to a 17-0 lead and looked to be cruising to victory, but the Wolfpack rallied and tied the game at 24. Boise took the lead on a big touchdown run to go up by 7 with little time left. But senior quarterback Colin Kaepernick had other plans.

Kaepernick led Nevada down the field for the game tying touchdown with only seconds left in the game. Certainly this game would be going to over time...

But aahh Kellen Moore did not want to let that happen. Boise got that ball back with 9 seconds left. Enough time for a chuck and pray, or maybe a post over the middle of the field to get them into field goal range.

It was a spectacular play, surely Boise would win... But kicker Kyle Brotzman had other plans...

It was the most heartbreaking thing in sports I've ever seen... the Boise sideline thought he made it, I'm sure Brotzman did too. And a point to bring up is... did he make it? Watch it again, full screen it, pause it multiple times. All things I did. Sometimes I go "Oh that's no good," but other times I go "Hmmm perhaps if those posts were longer, you could tell it was actually in." Even the guy working the ESPN scoreboard thought he made it... hmmm perhaps they shoulda taken some looks at it?

I'm not going to play conspiracy theory, but that is soem food for thought. Also notice, that Titus Young catch, the ball shoulda been spotted closer to the left hash, which means, in theory, he makes the field goal.

Either way my heart goes out to that kid, only God knows how hard it must be for him missing not one, but two chip shots that cost Boise the game.