Upsets

Upsets are the face of sports. Those are the games that make fans excited, and change up the pace of sports. Every team loves to be the upset as well. There isn't any better feeling than going into the game being projected to lose by everyone and then come out on top. Upsets prove that any team on any given day can beat anyone.

An upset is when an underdog team beats a great team or beats a team that is projected to beat them. When these games happen, which happens every week, it proves for a great story and shakes up the standings. A great upset game I went to was when Iowa State played the second ranked Oklahoma State Cowboys. It was a cold November night and everyone picked Oklahoma State to win. This was both teams last game of the year and the cowboys haven't lost all season, until that night. Iowa State ended up beating them in double overtime and changed the mindset of all college football. Instead of Oklahoma State going to the championship game, they went to a lesser bowl, which allowed the opportunity for another team to go to the title game.

These games are fun and peculiar at the same time. They are fun because everyone cheers for an underdog team if they are close to beating a great team. Fans love to see this! Also they are peculiar because no one besides the team that is playing expects them to actually win. Fans will cheer for an underdog team just because they can, but they don't actually expect them to win. The only people with faith are the team playing. Those players bond together more during weeks when they can underdogs on the sole fact that no one else does. I've been on that team. I've walked onto an opponent's field that had no respect for my team. They thought that they were better in every way imaginable. But one of the best feelings in sports is when you are able to do the unthinkable. When your team is challenged and succeeds. Those boos off the field were the best because we knew that we had succeeded.

Upsets. What a concept. The games that are "easier" turn out to be deciders. They end up changing the outcome of a season, or become the hardest game of the season. Upset bids happen all the time, and most of the time don't end up happening. But when they do, it changes sports and gives it a new life.