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Yes, of course, you want to see your team go undefeated and no one likes to see their team lose. But wouldn’t you rather see a game-winning two point conversion in a triple overtime loss than a 40 point blow out win…if the answer to that question is no than I don’t know how you could call yourself a fan. What everyone seems to be forgetting is that all of, or at least most of, these Saturdays that have been packed with upsets which seem to come week after week this year aren’t just monumental collapses by programs like Michigan or USC…they are phenomenal, thrilling college football games which I would hope any fan would jump at the chance to watch.

Instead it’s “whats wrong with Michigan,” or “how could USC lose like that?” These are the wrong questions. The perspective has been skewed…we should be paying attention to how the others have gotten better. USC is good, and has been, a loss doesn’t necessarily show weakness as it does show the strength of Stanford and moreso the strength of the Pac-10. Michigan didn’t get beaten by a team that was filled with 8th graders, you are talking about one of the best D1-AA teams in history filled with plenty of viable athletes in Appalachain State.

The point is, college football is no longer filled with 5-10 teams which are head and shoulders above the rest. You now have a solid 20-30 teams which can compete with each other on a regular basis and the teams below that can, if they play up well, compete with those top 30. This equilibrium will be the savior of the college football game.

The most important side effect of this will be the inevitable introduction of some sort of a playoff system. With the smaller schools continuing to exert themselves it is becoming clearer and clearer that more than just the traditional teams deserve a shot at a title. Now with teams like South Florida and Hawaii undefeated it’s increasingly more obvious that a bracket system needs to be in effect…what type exactly is another discussion…and another column all its own.

In a time when TV ratings dominate and teams like USC get EVERY single recruit it’s makes perfect sense that a season like this was bound to happen. It brought all the big wigs down and all the little guys up and showed all of us that when you show up on Saturday you better come to play, no matter who you play for or who you are playing against. This is why I won’t stop watching and why I won’t complain when #1 falls to an unranked…it’s not because I like to root for the underdog and it’s not because I’m sick of (insert powerhouse) winning, it’s because I have been waiting for a time when I sit down on my couch at 3:30pm to watch a game I do it knowing full well I’m in for a treat, and you are too all you have to do is watch, don’t judge.