Insanity Saturday

In all likelihood, most of the readers that visit this blog don't really care that much about the perspectives this writer has on sports. However, seven of college football's top 13 teams losing in the same week (to considerable underdogs) is not very likely either. So who knows?

An undersized, over-matched underdog stepped into the college football ring on Saturday and exacted some pretty devastating blows. The fight went something like this:

• A left jab delivered from #18 South Florida (4-0) to #5 West Virginia (4-1) staggered the favorite with a 21-13 Bulls' win in Tampa
  
• Another stiff jab from Colorado (3-2) stunned #3 Oklahoma (4-1) with the Buffalo's Kevin Eberhart's career-long 45-yard field goal as time expired to send Colorado past the Sooners in Boulder
• No. 6 (5-0) Cal followed with a right hook to the lightly favored #11 Oregon Ducks (4-1) as the Golden Bears eeked-out a 31-24 win in Eugene
• Kansas State (3-1) followed with a flurry of punches that leveled #7 Texas (4-1), handing the Longhorns a painful 41-21 home loss
• Although down, the favorite was not quite out as Maryland (3-2) connected with another crushing blow in a 34-24 win over home team #10 Rutgers (3-1)
• Georgia Tech (3-2) added an uppercut that sent #13 Clemson (4-1) reeling as the Yellow Jackets emerged with a 13-3 victory over the Tigers
• The champ looked as if he would make a dramatic come-from-behind victory as #4 Florida (4-1) came back from a 14 point fourth quarter deficit to tie Auburn (3-2) at 17 before freshman Wes Bynum split the uprights for a 43-yard field goal as time expired giving the Tigers a huge 20-17 knockout win

In total, the underdogs overcame an 89.5-point spread this week as the favorites tumbled. This was definitely an insane Saturday in college football.