On any given Saturday in the fall, college football can be both grand and terrible, sometimes within a single play. From the agony of defeat, to the joy of victory, and every emotion in between, the sport offers fans nearly the full range of human experience. Yesterday was a microcosm of all the things that make college football great.
On any given Saturday, college football lives entirely between the hash marks, and for all our complaints about corruption, media bias, exploitation, and the other ills that plague this sport, we can focus on the actual game.
On this particular Saturday, we experienced the terrible anguish of Notre Dame's Malik Zaire and his season-ending injury, and the sheer magic of BYU and Tanner Mangum in the dying seconds of their game against Boise State.