Upset?

You hate it or love it, it's known as the upset. The underdog shocks the world as David takes down Goliath. The thing I have trouble understanding is why an upset should ever happen. I know that games aren't played on paper but realistically if a team is favored by enough, then they should never lose.

The upset should never happen. A team gets one week to prepare for a team, no matter how big of a game it is, a team should never be looked past. Looking past the smaller team is a great way to get beat. It simply should never happen and when it does, the underdog never gets the credit for out hustling and wanting the game more. It's always that the favored team lost the game, instead of getting beaten.

I also believe that the term upset is used out of context many times in sports. An upset is when a team, that is vastly over matched defeats a team that is superior. This season, teams that have been "upset" haven't been defeated by bad opposition. This weekend, PSU was defeated by an undefeated Iowa squad. While in the state of Florida, the Bulls of South Florida continued an undefeated run by dismissing the Seminoles in Tallahassee.

A legitimate upset this season has been the Washington Huskies taking down the then #3 USC. So in reality, upsets occur less than ESPN makes it seem. So don't be too upset if the team you cheer for gets beat by a team that isn't ranked, it's not necessarily an upset and it's certainly not the end of the world.