College Football Chaos: 2010 Season Shaping Up to Be Another Wild Ride

The 2007 college football season turned out to be one of the most unpredictable, yet most enjoyable from just a sheer entertainment standpoint that we’ve experienced in quite some time.

I can remember many nights that fall spent at Shooters in Morgantown, W. Va. during my time as a young college student watching upset after upset unfold weekend after weekend.

Each Saturday night offered up a new adventure and an exciting array of college football craziness that reminded me why I love the sport so much.

LSU would go on to cap off that roller coaster season as the eventual BCS champions and in the process become the first-ever team to win a title with two losses on their resume.

After what we say today, this third Saturday of October, it now looks like the 2010 season is about to make 2007 look like a normal and calm walk in the park.   

For the second weekend in a row, we watched as a No. 1 ranked team was cut down like an aging tree as the Ohio State Buckeyes were thoroughly outplayed by a tough Wisconsin bunch at Camp Randall Stadium.

The loss comes a week after the defending national champion Alabama Crimson Tide fell to South Carolina in Colombia and it all now sets up a chaotic second half of the season that just isn’t worth trying to predict nor handicap at this point.

2010 looks like the type of season that you’re just going to have to let unfold and admire along the way for all the surprising twists and turns that are bound to occur and pop up.

Sure, on Sunday night the first BCS rankings of the season will be unveiled, but just exactly how accurate will they prove to be three or four weeks from now?  

Are they really worth all the scrutiny and debate that they will undoubtedly receive?

With the way things are going and the way this season has been progressing, those rankings look like they will change and fluctuate on a weekly basis, so there’s no need to get too caught up in who is where at this point in this season.

Teams will rise and teams will fall as the conference slates play themselves out.

The main attention at this point seems to center around the WAC’s mischievous little troublemaker, the Boise State Broncos, a team that will in all likelihood top the first edition of the BCS rankings according to all the experts.

In a year when every major team looks like they will probably have at least one loss when things are all said and done, this might turn out to be the perfect time to let the Broncos prove themselves in the big game if they are to actually run the table and finish undefeated once again.

Trying to figure out just who is No. 1 right now is almost just as hard as it was at this point in the season back in 2007. There hasn’t been the time for proper separation yet.

Things are still jumbled, and with schools like Oregon, Auburn, Boise State, TCU plus a wealth of other dark horses like Michigan State, Missouri, LSU, Alabama and others all ready to make their cases, it seems best to let the season just run its course.

College football has always proved to be a sport that can humble even the savviest of experts and 2010 looks like a year that just isn’t worth trying to wrap your mind around until we reach that first weekend in December and all the cards have been put out on the table.

It’s likely that at that point, things will probably still be in as much disorder as they are now, but at least will have the whole picture to put into context.

There’s just no reason to worry right now about what the end will be to this great story. Let’s simply just enjoy the ride and soak in a season that is shaping up to be one of the wildest we’ve seen in a very long time.

Nobody is a “fraud” just yet, just like nobody is a “champion” just yet. There’s no need to break out the crowns for the victors or the firing squads for the fallen at this very point in time.

We’ve still got a long way to go!