Happy and Sad Time as a Fan

This past week of college football has turned out to be a mixed emotion week for me as a fan. The Oregon Ducks played Arizona on Thursday and lost not only their national title spot and hopes, but their one-man wonder, Heisman candidate, and one of the last weapons on their offense, Dennis Dixon. Word is now that he is out for the season.

The positive note is that BYU has broken into the top 25, and Boise State has a chance at a BCS bowl game.

BYU is Becoming Another Strong Presence

BYU is having another great year this year. By the way things are looking, they are going to finish undefeated in the Mountain West Conference for the second year in the row. A dominating defense is the reason this year, compared to the outstanding offense last year lead by John Beck. While BYU hasn't had the hardest schedule this year, they still have beat somewhat good teams like TCU and Arizona. There two losses are another set of close ones, bringing you to have the what if question pop into your head again. There season could have been undefeated right now. Oh well, they will still get the MWC championship. GO COUGARS!

Hooray Oregon, Ohio State and LSU-You Had Better Lose

After a successful season gone wrong last year, no one expected the Oregon Ducks football to make any success in this year's college football season. My, how we all were surprised when the Ducks ran the tables, winning all but one game so far this year. That one loss, was a few mistakes from a win. Now Oregon is number 3 in the BCS standings. Part of the reason for the success in the transformation of Dennis Dixon. I've watched him play for Oregon the past two years and turnovers have been his woes, along with the football team. This year is another story. He has only thrown three interceptions this year, with two being in the loss they had.

This reason for all recap-Oregon is one of the best teams in the nation, and should go to the national champioship. Two teams stand in their way right now. One is Ohio State and the other is LSU. Ohio State is a pretty good team but should be ranked lower, because they have not played against any real good teams yet. LSU has had a tough schedule, but their are two reasons why they should'nt be in the championship. On is that they would have homefield advantage, literally. The other is that of the tough teams they have beat, they have only gained the lead in the last five minutes of the game, some less, on some very lucky plays. Eventually their luck will run out. To me that is not vey impressive.