Monday, January 01, 2007 - Posts

U2 was wrong!

posted Monday, January 01, 2007 8:11 PM by mike.hlas

All is quiet on New Year's Day.

That's the opening line to an old U2 song called  "New Year's Day." It was one of the first videos MTV played. The song was about political unrest in Poland or something heavy like that. All I know about the song is The Edge played a mean piano in it.

But this New Year's Day wasn't quiet. No sir, not quiet at all. Even though the BCS national-championship game isn't played until Jan. 8 for some perverse reason, New Year's had the game of the year when Boise State beat Oklahoma in overtime, 43-42. If you saw the game, you were probably all hollering out loud late in the fourth quarter and in overtime. If you missed it and you like college football, you're not off to a lucky start in 2007,

While Boise State grabbed the headline of the day, it was interesting that former Iowa player/assistant coach Bret Bielema capped a 12-1 rookie season as head coach of Wisconsin with his Badgers' 17-14 win over Auburn in the Capital One Bowl. It seems to me that going 12-1 in your first year of coaching and winning a Capital One Bowl is pretty good.

It's not as good as going 13-0 and beating Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl like Boise State's Chris Petersen did in his first year as a head coach, but it's a start.

At the Rose Bowl, Adrian Arrington of Cedar Rapids Washington caught a touchdown pass for Michigan in its loss to USC. It was Arrington's eight TD catch of the season. It occurred to me that someone from Cedar Rapids catches a touchdown pass in the Rose Bowl about, oh, once every 100 Rose Bowls or so.

Nothing changes on New Year's Day, Bono sang. Don't tell that to Boise State.
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