Hawkeyes Upset Penn St.

I am a huge football fan. But, even though I live in the heart of Hawkeye country, I am not a big Iowa fan. I don’t really have a reason for this; it’s just that I never got around to liking them. I wasn’t born here, I moved here when I was in kindergarten, and I don’t have a favorite college football team. If I did, it probably would not be the Hawkeyes. I don’t have anything against them, they didn’t do anything wrong, I just don’t have a fondness for them like most of the other people that walk through the halls of my school do.

But I must admit that their win over Penn St. was miraculous. Penn St. is a good football team. I was looking for them to get into the national championship to give the Big Ten some representation, but that is out of the question now. I thought that they were just going to overwhelm the Hawks and beat them just on pure talent alone. But this was not the case. The talented Penn St. team did not shine verse the Hawks. But Penn St. has nobody to blame but themselves. They threw the game away. Iowa played like they usually do: turning the ball over on key possessions, making penalty’s that give the other team first downs when they were going to punt the ball away and give the Hawks decent field position. Penn St. just didn’t convert when they had the opportunity. They did get the Hawks down and keep them down like they (and everybody else in the nation) know they are capable of doing.

Now on to more college football.  Texas vs. Texas Tech. I was convinced that Texas was going to win this game. They had gone through a grueling schedule up to that point, and they had succeeded. They had overcome ever obstacle in their way and, I thought, were going to make a run to the national championship undefeated. This was not the case. It was close, as everybody expected, but Texas Tech found the way to pull this one out. Maybe it was the Harrell-Crabtree combination, or maybe it was just Graham Harrell. I think he is the best quarterback in this country. No doubt. If you just look at his staggering numbers, he blows everybody else away. But it’s not just the numbers. As you can see from that game, he also has the leadership to lead his team and come out victorious. But don’t doubt Colt McCoy, I think he is the second best. Just watch him play a game, its pretty impressive. He would have won the Heisman if Harrell didn’t beat him.