College Football Week in Review

Since Florida beat Ohio State last January in the Bowl Championship Game, there has been much speculation on who the best team was headed into the 2007 football season. With USC and LSU ranked one and two in most polls, the question was if Michigan could creep into the title game by going undefeated in a weakened Big Ten or if Tennessee could put it all together and unseat Florida and LSU to capture the SEC championship.

With only one game in the books, both of those questions can be answered as Michigan lost in the greatest upset in college football history when it lost to Appalachian State. After a game that swung back and forth, Michigan had a chance to win the game. But a blocked punt on the game's final play saw the Wolverines and their top 5 ranking go down the tubes along with their national championship hopes to a Division 1-AA school.

While Tennessee's loss to California was no where near as bad and humiliating as Michigan's the way Tennessee got beat was no less telling. When the Cal Bears arrived in Knoxville last year for the season opener and were run up and down the field by the speed dominant Volunteers football analysts saw the game as an indication of the differential in how the game differs between the SEC and the Pac-10. Odd to say it, but the pendulum swung in the opposite direction entirely as California did to Tennessee this season on its home field what it suffered last season at Neyland Stadium.

Notre Dame's game against Georgia Tech had Coach Charlie Weis and Irish faithful scratching their heads. Having played three quarterbacks in the game including its highly touted freshman, the Fighting Irish appeared to have no fight in them in a game that was as ugly as any Notre Dame game college football has seen in the last twenty years. It boggles the mind to think that the Irish only scored three points on their home field. It is even more unsettling that they loss by thirty in the same game. With little defense and no offense the Notre Dame faithful can call this season a wash with the 2008 season, one to look forward to as the youth dominated Irish learn the ropes of playing in big-time college football.