College Football: Week Two in Review

Week two compared to week one was a bad sequel that never should've even became a sequel. Okay, maybe not that bad, but you get the point. There weren't many exciting games heading into the weekend but it didn't end up too bad. The Battle at Bristol was a good game, TCU vs. Arkansas was pretty good, and CMU vs. Oklahoma State was good with an unpredictable ending. So, let's take a look at week two.

A lot of the high ranked teams played cupcakes, and the scores indicated that, other than Clemson who struggled this week. Michigan rolled over UCF, 51-14, and the other top power five teams were either off or had scores similar to Michigan's. However, the game between TCU and Arkansas was a good one. Arkansas got the early lead, TCU battled back to take the lead, but Arkansas then tied it to force overtime. Arkansas ended up winning the game, which was pretty significant for them because it was on the road against a ranked team.

The Battle in Bristol was an awesome set up for a college football game and in my opinion was a very good idea because it allowed more fans to experience the game live in person (150,000 to be exact) and it allowed the players to play in front of a huge crowd. I think that college football should do something like this every year, letting more teams and fans to experience something like that. As for the game, Virginia Tech got out to an early lead but they eventually gave it up to Tennessee and the Vols ran away with it and won by 20, showing how good they are and for teams to lookout for them this year. 

Now things get interesting. Central Michigan played Oklahoma State and many thought the Cowboys would dominate. Well, those people thought wrong. It was tight down to the wire and Oklahoma State had the ball with about 8 seconds left. Their coach told their QB to eat some time and then throw it as far as you can. The problem: he didn't think of intentional grounding. Time did expire but they refs screwed up and gave the ball to CMU because of the grounding call on fourth down. So CMU got an untimed down. They fired a Hail-Mary down field, their receiver caught it around the 10 yard-line and was about to go down. Before he did, he pitched it to his teammate who had one man to beat to get in the end zone, which he did and CMU won 30-28 in controversial fashion. One of the craziest plays you'll see all season, but I guess that's why we love college football.