In Class: free write

Thanksgiving break was a good break overall, highlighted by the demise of Boise State on Friday. Friday was an unusual day overall for college football. The day began with Auburn playing Alabama in the Iron Bowl. With an Auburn loss, it would put TCU in better position to be playing for the national championship game. Alabama opened the game scoring 24 unanswered points, but eventually lost to Auburn 28-27, which was disappointing. Alabama had four possessions inside of Auburn's 10-yard line and had two field goals and two fumbles in those four possessions. Had they converted one of those fumbles into a field goal they would have escaped with a win and put TCU in a better position for the national championship. After this sad ending, Oregon played Arizona. Again, an Oregon loss would put TCU in better position for the national championship, but Arizona had a small chance to beat Oregon. At halftime, Arizona was leading but could not finish and eventually lost to the Ducks. After these two depressing games that did not go TCU's way at all, Boise State played WAC rival Nevada. Although Boise was not ranked ahead of TCU in the BCS poll at the start of this game, a win would propel them ahead of TCU and crushed all national championship hopes. Boise State was up 24-7 in the fourth quarter but could not hold on to the lead and ended up losing to Nevada in overtime, a result of two late field goals that were missed on Boise's end. All in all, food to football, I had a fabulous break.