"The Year of the Upset" is what the media dubbed this year's college football season, and it's what the college football faithful have heard throughout the entire season. The question is, have they really been upsets, or just teams playing hard, week-in and week-out.
Everything started when Appalachian State of the FCS (formally I-AA) beat #5 Michigan 32-30 in the first week of the season. It was considered the greatest upset in college football history—but was it an upset or just a good team beating someone they were continuously told they couldn't?
The following week, South Florida took down #17 Auburn. Again, this was considered an upset, but South Florida later became the #2 team in the nation in Week Seven.
Week Three was the Week of the Upset, as #11 UCLA lost to unranked Utah, 44-6, #9 Louisville lost to unranked Kentucky, 40-34, #16 Arkansas lost 41-38 to Alabama, and #21 Boston College defeated #15 Georgia Tech, 24-10.
Syracuse pulled off the only real upset in Week Four, as they defeated #18 Louisville for one of their two wins on the year. Other upsets included Michigan defeating Penn State and the Miami Hurricanes taking down Texas A&M.
In the fifth week of the college football season, #4 Florida fell to Auburn, #3 Oklahoma was taken down by the Colorado Buffaloes, the 13th-ranked Clemson Tigers were demoralized by the Yellow Jackets of Georgia Tech, and #5 West Virginia was shocked by the South Florida Bulls—but the most amazing win of the week was probably the Maryland Terrapins' 34-24 win over the Scarlet Knights of Rutgers.
In the sixth week of games for the season, the improbable happened again as the #2 USC Trojans fell 24-23 to the Cardinal from Stanford, and the twelfth-ranked Bulldogs from Georgia lost to the unranked Tennessee Volunteers.
Week Seven produced one of the most exciting, and seemingly impossible finishes in college football, when the Tigers from Baton Rouge went into Commonwealth Stadium in Lexington to take on an upset-minded Kentucky Wildcats team. The Wildcats prevailed against the top-ranked Tigers—43-37 in triple overtime.
Week Eight again showcase a great game, considered to be an "upset," as the unranked Scarlet Knights of Rutgers took down the second-ranked South Florida team. Along with that game, the sixth-ranked South Carolina Gamecocks lost to the Vanderbilt Commodores, 17-6.
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