What a great weekend for college football. First, it was 83 and sunny as The Ohio State University Buckeyes took on Youngstown State University. Being that YSU is a 1-AA team, this game was expected to be a fairly simple game for the Bucks and it was. The final ended up being 38-6, but even with it being a blowout it was still a good game to go to.
It was like watching an 18 year-old guy play basketball with his 13 year-old brother. The fact is most YSU fans are OSU fans. More accurately most YSU fans are Jim Tressel fans. Coach Tressel is still a hero in Youngstown and rightfully so. While at YSU, he elevated the penguins into arguably the best college football team of the 90's. YSU's overall record during the 90's was 103-27-2 and they went to 6 national championship, winning 4. Tressel is still a presence in Youngstown, appearing at a number of charity events and donating over 1.25 million dollars to YSU, since he left. Then most OSU fans know and understand Tressel's legacy in Youngstown, so there is a bit of respect there. A "You produced our hero" kind of feeling. So, unlike every other game in the horseshoe this year, when a fan walked in wearing attire of the oppenent nobody booed, nobody threw beer. It was just a good football game between two clearly unequal oppenents.
Speaking of unequal oppenents, the second reason this weekend was so great is Michigan. Like OSU, Michigan scheduled a 1-AA team for their season opener. So they took on Appilacian State at the big house on Saturday and what happened...arguably the greatest upset in college football history. No 1-AA team has ever beaten a ranked 1-A team. And they not only beat a ranked team, they beat the team that was favored to win the Big Ten and be a major contendor for the national championship. Now Michigan's whole season is messed up. They have no chance to go to the national championship. How can you go to the 1-A national championship if you can't even beat the national champion of the division below theirs? Anyway, what a great weekend for college football.
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