End of the College Football Season

     This year in college football has been a very exciting and enthusiastic year. This year has contained many upsets and tons of unexpected twists and turns. At the end of each college football season comes my favorite part of it all especially when Tennessee is playing in one (but not this year…) is bowl season. If a team has a record of 6-6 or better then they are offered the chance to go to a bowl game. A bowl game is played at an neutral site somewhere in the United States and is usually played between two teams who are matched up pretty well together. The three things that stood out to me this year were the Auburn Tigers, Jameis Winston, and the last weekend of the regular season.

     

     We had the turnaround team of the year in the Auburn Tigers who were 3-9 and 8-0 in conference play who are now heading to the national championship to play Florida State. When Gus Malzahn (first year Auburn Head Coach) took the reigns at Auburn, he inherited a group of guys that had a rough previous year but were eager to get better and start fresh. Malzahn brought in a new scheme on the offensive side of the ball with the spread fast-tempo offense. Malzahn also brought a new mind-set to Auburn; he brought back the winning mind-set back.

     

Auburn's Stadium after upset of Alabama

     Who would have thought that someone who was only two years four months and twenty-six days older than me could win the most prestigious award in college football as only a red-shirt freshman? Jameis Winston obviously knew he could, because he did exactly that. No one knew who Jameis Winston was until he made his first career start against the Pittsburgh Panthers where he had 356 yards passing, four passing touchdowns, zero interceptions, 25 yards rushing, and an rushing touchdown. On the season as a whole, he has 3,820 yards passing, 38 passing touchdowns, 10 interceptions, 193 rushing yards and four rushing touchdowns. Most senior quarterbacks in college football could not accomplish never the less a red-shirt freshman.

Jameis Winston

     

     The last weekend of the college football regular season was as crazy as any other week of the college football season. For another SEC team to go to a national championship either Florida State would have to lose to Duke in the ACC championship game or Ohio State would have to lose to Michigan State in the Big 10 Championship game. Ohio State ended up losing to Michigan State and Auburn ended up beating Missouri in the SEC championship, which would slingshot Auburn into the national championship picture to play Florida State in Pasadena, California. Now for the eighth year straight there will be another SEC team in the national championship.

Auburn vs. Florida State

     I am going to miss college football when it is all over this year. But I am very excited for next year because next year I will be in college and attending a lot of the games at the school that I choose in the student section. College football is very close to me; I have been raised on college football since day one by my dad. I am very fortunate to say that I have been to so many college football games and I probably would not be the same person without college football.