The Unlikely College Football Season

Finally, college football is a little interesting.

The sport has always been a sad subject because of the constant situation of powerhouse teams playing non-existent competition. In a sixteen game schedule a great team was likely to play only one or two teams that would be a challenge. Then their true challenge would come in a BCS Bowl Game, but that was one game and one team. There would be fifteen other great teams they didnt play because they were in different divisions and gave them no chance to ever play against each other.

This lopsidedness has forced every team to go undefeated and just hope they'd be chosen to play the national title game because there is no such thing as a playoff. This makes for questionable decisions and no true national champion because other unbeaten teams would finish their year with not even a chance at the title.

College football doesn't have a playoff yet, but it does have some fascinating upsets that is changing the face of the game. Numerous teams in the top ten have already lost to lesser quality teams, including many at the top ranking. This has allowed for a school like South Florida to slowly march up the poll. S. Florida, a Big East division school and considered to have lesser competition than others, has blown out every team its faced and gone undefeated with the flair that is expected of great teams. They began ranked at the bottom half of the top twenty five but because of defeats and what not, they currently stand at #5. And because LSU and Cal (ranked both number 1 and 2) recently lost, S. Florida looks like it will move into the top 3 in the country.

That is amazing. South Florida was considered a non-entity just a few years ago and the equivalent of a division two school because the Big East had no great teams. The Big East has gained more respect and S. Florida, still considered an underdog kind of talent who would lose to numerous other teams on the top 25 if they ever played them, would be in title game if either Boston College or Ohio State (ranked ahead of them) lost a game and S. Florida won out.

South Florida in a title game sounds insane to most experts and may never happen, but the unpredictability of this season could make it just happen. College football hasn't corrected its big mistakes of no playoffs yet, but is showing enough upsets to make the top 25 a little more interesting.