Issue 15
Sports & Recreation
September 26, 2018 Page 5
NCAA College Football isn’t stopping soon By ETHAN CUNDIFF Staff Writer
Fall is finally here, and the weather is starting to get colder. College football is underway and conference schedules are starting up. This has been a crazy year so far for top 25 teams. Upset alerts have been a focus through the first four weeks, and some teams have had some scares already. Before the start of the season, things were getting hectic for one Big Ten team. Ohio State had an assault scandal with, now former, assistant coach, Zach Smith. He was fired by the university, and head coach Urban Meyer was placed on paid leave and suspended for the first three games. That was just the start
of the craziness this season has brought us. Opening week, we saw tenth ranked Penn State barely get a win 38–31 in overtime against unranked Appalachian State. This should not have surprised anyone. App. State upset a top ranked Michigan team. That same week Michigan battled Notre Dame in a tough game, that the Irish won 24–17. Week two brought us two big upsets that have created some college football drama. Arizona State beat Michigan State 16–13 with a game winning field goal. We also, saw the University of Kentucky beat Florida 27–16. This was the first win against Florida in 31 years. This season has been a
crazy year so far with upset scares, and I love it. Weeks three and four brought us more upsets, fifth ranked Wisconsin lost to BYU 24–21. We also have seen Kentucky beat back to back ranked teams as they went on to beat Mississippi State 28–7. Tell me this who would have thought Kentucky, Syracuse, Duke, and Cincinnati would all be undefeated? I for sure would not have. Basketball schools can be football schools, and we are seeing it this year! This is the first time that both Duke and Kentucky have been ranked in football. If that is not crazy, then I don’t know what is. With all this madness, it is making me excited for what the rest of the season has in
store. We get to see two top ten match–ups this week, and there will be a dog fight. First, you have seventh ranked Stanford traveling to South Bend as they face eighth ranked Notre Dame. Stanford is coming off a week where they had to make a 17-point comeback to beat Oregon. While Notre Dame has found their way by beating Wake Forest and scoring over 24 points for the first time all season, this game will play a vital role for them if they want to get into the college football playoffs. This game will take place on Saturday, Sept. 27 at 7:30 p.m. Another top ten match– up is happening at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday night and is a Big Ten showdown. Ninth
ranked Penn State will host fourth ranked Ohio State for their annual White Out game. During this game, fans are encouraged to pack the stadium with white. This game is happening earlier in the year than it has in the past and could help either team with their playoff hopes. In the past two years, this game has decided who went on to make it to the Big Ten championship. With everything that has already happened in the college football season so far, it is so hard to predict anything. One thing I can say is to always be ready for the unexpected. With two big match- ups this weekend it will be a fun and exciting rest of the season, football fans. Who will make the playoffs?
Tiger Woods continues making history By GJ WELLINGHURST Staff Writer If you were to ask the PGA professionals who their role model was growing up, the majority of them would probably tell you that it was Tiger Woods. Every young fan can remember watching Tiger win tournament after tournament with his unmatched power, electrifying finishes and his famous red polo on Sunday’s. Tiger Woods came on the PGA scene as an extremely young player, but even in his first few seasons, everyone could tell that he was golf’s
next great superstar. What no one realized was the true potential of the young Tiger. His records in the golf world will probably never be challenged. In his career he has 18 World Golf Championship victories. The runner up on that list has only three. Tiger has spent 683 weeks as the world’s top golfer; the next highest has spent almost six years less than Tiger at that spot. Unfortunately, all that success came to a screeching halt as he was rumored to have had an affair in November of 2009, and within a week was cited for careless driving after crash-
ing into a fire hydrant while pulling out of his driveway. By the time May of 2016 came around, he had gone through four rounds of back surgery and dropped out of the top 500 golfers in the world. Through extreme perseverance, Tiger made a comeback to the professional scene. He has been playing better and better throughout the entire season, including several top five tournament finishes in the last month. On the last PGA event of the season, Tiger won his first major tournament in five years. The 100th PGA Championship will forever belong to
Tiger Woods. Every year, there are sports images that people will remember for the rest of their lives, and watching Tiger, who had a several stroke lead walk up with the crowd of thousands at the back of his heels, will go on as one of the
most iconic sports moments in history. Even through his struggles, Tiger was still able to win a major title and inspire golf fans all around the world. So keep watching because Tiger is, hopefully, back to stay.
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