Week One...

Well...week one of the College Football season is officially in the books. There were some surprises, some scares, and outcomes you would expect. This is the best part of college football. You have to come every week and play your heart out for the school that you love to have success.

I will start off with my Iowa State Cyclones! So we played the North Dakota State Bison, they have only been in the FCS for a couple of years now but have already scared several Division I schools, I believe coming into this game they were 1-3 against D 1 schools and the losses were never by more than a touchdown or something like that. It was an overall good game. We were able to find some strengths and weaknesses while not completely showing everything that we have. The defense needs some work, the biggest thing is there is no major leader however this seems to be slowly changing as they forced NDSU to kick several times with their backs against the wall, and force a couple of turnovers. The offense looked very good and had a few things to iron out.

I was also able to attend the iowa vs uni game this past Saturday. It was an interesting game and I learned a rule I didn't know existed. A caller to a post game radio show put it seemingly perfectly "iowa came to scrimmage and uni came to play". Or at least that's how it seems. UNI kicked Iowa around for a good part of the day, especially on the line which is iowa coach Kirk Ferentz pride and joy. The game came down to a a last second field goal by uni with them trailing by one. The first kick was blocked...however it didn't cross the line and was recovered by UNI. Since it was only first down they could attempt another kick, with the same result however it went past the line and was recovered by the hawks. Now I don't care who you are or how good you think the blocks were the UNI kicker hadn't been getting the kicks up from contact all day, every single kick would barely make it over the line so it was almost a waiting game for a kick to get blocked. Overall Mike Hlas put it perfect in his column on Sunday with the headline of "A game the better team didn't win".

In terms of upsets need we say more than the Oklahoma Sooners getting upset by BYU. You can partially blame this on Sam Bradford being taken out due to an injury early in the game, however mostly on just out right good play by both sides that ultimately ended up with a BYU upset win. By the way if you haven't heard I believe Bradford is out indefinately due to some kind of shoulder injury. I still think that the sooners have a chance to give Texas a run for their money and possibly battle for a Big 12 Title and maybe even a chance at the Rose Bowl which is the BCS Championship game this year.

On another note...IT'S IOWA WEEK!!! Which mostly means we play eiu and well I do as little school work as possible, speaking of which I have a paper to write...better get on that. Anyway I hope you all come to the game or watch it on TV and cheer on your favorite team, but PLEASE don't act like a stupid fan and ruin it for the rest of us. Yes it's a great rivalry arguably one of the best in college football but you don't have to be a stupid fan. Go ahead support your school but see the game, if your team sucked at something freaking admit it and be a good fan, not one with your head up your ass thinking that your team is the best damn thing to walk the earth, if your Florida or USC or Texas then you have that right...almost. I know everyone has those kinds of fans but please but the beer down and talk rationally and truly about what happened on that field. Please stay safe as well, the last thing I want to hear about is some drunk mistake that hurts or possibly kills someone. Thank you and use your head...most importantly...GO STATE!!!! BEAT THE HAWKS!!! GOD BLESS!!!