Expecting the school soccer gods to offer us a second serving to of final week’s insanity is asking so much. Four undefeated Top-10 colleges fell, and three completely different crowds rushed the sphere, with the Vols beginning a GoFundMe-type deal for his or her goalposts that have been dumped into the Tennessee River.
You don’t dare ask your mother and father to return to Disney World per week later, neither is it good to hunt permission out of your higher half for an additional man’s (or gal’s) weekend earlier than the booze from a bachelor (or bachelorette) celebration in Vegas is even out of your system. The most you may hope for is possibly a visit to the arcade (if these are nonetheless a factor), or a spherical of golf together with your work buddies. Let’s not get grasping, and easily be grateful for what we’ve been given.
And that’s unbeaten UCLA visiting a one-loss Oregon crew. How about one other matchup of flawless groups (not less than record-wise) in upstart Syracuse trying to knock off ACC overlord Clemson? There’s additionally the Insufferable Coach Bowl with Brian Kelly’s LSU squad internet hosting Lane Kiffin’s 7-0 Ole Miss. TCU has its fourth-straight sport versus a ranked opponent as Deuce Vaughn and Kansas State come to Fort Worth. Even although Alabama is a 21-point favourite over Mississippi State, the Tide’s go protection has been shredded by good passing video games, and Will Rogers leads the SEC in passing.
It won’t be 48 hours of euphoria, and that’s OK. If each weekend was a quest to one-up the final, we’d consistently be let down. It’s like Peter La Fleur mentioned in “Dodgeball”: “I found that if you have a goal, you might not reach it. But if you don’t have one, then you are never disappointed.”
So with that, let’s take a whip round these video games.