My Sports Weekend

Everyone knows that I love football, and football is what I spend the majority of my time watching over the weekends. After watching and reading articles about football from the three levels I have learned and like.

HIGH SCHOOL

I can't go into too much depth about high school football, because I only went to one game, but from the results of games I am excited to say that the Great Basin West conference has been an exciting year of football. The teams are not that good, heck, the #1 Twin Falls record is still only 4-4, but when I say it is exciting I mean that it is not written on paper.
First off Burley did what it had to do and they won the two most able to win games and luckily they got themselves into the playoffs. Jerome was second and beat every team except Twin Falls like you would expect. This is where it gets interesting. First Canyon Ridge beats Minico who just this last Friday beats the champion, Twin Falls, but then loses to Wood River. What does that say? Canyon Ridge, at the bottom of the conference beat a team that beat the champion, and if Twin Falls would have beaten Minico, and CRHS beat WRHS we would have had to have a three way playoff between Minico, Burley, and Canyon Ridge to see who gets the last two spots. Minico > Burley > CRHS > Minico. I love it! However, don't expect many teams to be represented in the state tournament. TFHS will beat Burley and will get one spot, but I'm thinking Jerome and Minico will not win their games this week.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

I learned many things.

1. The BCS is rigged: I don't agree with Iowa, who has had so many close calls and needed a last second touchdown to beat a 4-4 Michigan State team can jump over an undefeated Boise State and Cincinnati team that both beat their teams by 45 and 32 points respectively. How can LSU who's only loss is to the #1 ranked team in the nation be seeded lower than a USC team who's loss is to a 3-5 Washington team? If I got to vote in the top 10 it would be
#1 Texas
#2 Florida
#3 Alabama
#4 Boise State
#5 TCU
#6 Cincinnati
#7 Iowa
#8 LSU
#9 Oregon
#10 USC
Which brings me to my next point

2. Every team is vulnerable. After watching the Florida and Alabama games and seeing them struggle I can honestly think that Boise State or TCU could beat any team in the nation. I'm not saying they're the best in the nation. What I'm saying is that they deserve a shot at a national championship just as much as the next person.

3. BYU IS TERRIBLE. I used to be an avid BYU fan, but seeing them the past couple of years I have lost interest in them. They are one of the most overrated teams. For the past two years BYU has ridden on the coattails of one major vicotry (a 59-0 win over UCLA who finished the year with two wins in 2008 and a one point win over an Oklahoma team that isn't even in the top 25 anymore) After they won their second MWC title they thought they needed to focus more on national rankings than conference rankings, causing them to lose focus on TCU and Utah, getting blown out in the last three games. It sickens me to say that BYU is not good, but its true. They let SDSU score 28 or so points on them the week before, and besides that win at Oklahoma they really haven't accomplished much. So Cosmo, before you go ripping a paper that says TCU in front of national television, maybe you should go rip the depth chart of your defense, because it is terrible.

PROFESSIONAL

I don't follow pros nearly as much, but I just wanted to say that even though my 49ers lost today I wanna say that I'm proud of them. They showed me that they can come back from a deficit, and that they can score in bunches. After being down 21-0 to Houston they could have just thrown in the towel, but instead they brought the game back to 24-21 and actually had a chance to drive down the field and win the game, but just came up a little short. Alex Smith looked great today throwing three TD passes and only one INT which was on the second last play of the game.
I don't expect the niners to win the division, but I would love to see them go 9-7 and maybe even make the playoffs.

Well I know I probably bored all you non football fans to death, but I had to get my feelings out to someone. Hope you enjoy!