Published 9/26/2008
by Tim Seeman
at Bleacher Report - College Football
I'm not a college football fan.
I have no biases. The SEC has good teams and bad teams. The Big Ten Plus One has decent teams and bad teams. The Pac-10 is all right, but the Pac-10 is also terrible. The Big 12 wins games every week, and they lose games every week.
Conference supremacy is irrelevant to me. It matters almost as much as who wins the National Championship Game, because God knows that fans of Other Football Factory University would argue to the death that their team could easily beat the National Champions.
It probably doesn't help that my school hasn't had a football team in 50 years either.
All that said, one aspect of the college game does intrigue me.
I'm talking about the giant upset.
Oregon State beat Southern Cal Thursday night. In case you missed it.
Of course, I would've missed it if it was just another USC blowout. But the Beavers were winning by 21 as the game went to halftime.
"Great," I thought to ...
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