After one of the most knuckle-biting games I’ve seen in a long time (especially in the last 30 seconds), Hawaii became only the third non-BCS team to play in a BCS bowl game. Against the team that until Saturday was ranked #4.
Everyone’s calling it the year of the upset. And at least one commentator thinks it might be a sign of things to come in the world of presidential politics as well:
Last Saturday night, #1 Missouri and #2 West Virginia lost in college football, blowing their chances for the national championship. And Harvard (!) beat Michigan, 62-51, in college basketball. We’re heading towards an Obama-Huckabee presidential race.
Campaigns work in cycles, and it seems as though we’re currently in a cycle in which the frontrunners (Giuliani, Romney, and Clinton) look like they are in trouble and the challengers (Huckabee, McCain, and Obama) look strong. However: the first voting is still a month away. Which means we may yet experience additional cycles during which the frontrunners re-assert their status or new challengers rise to the fore. That said, no one other than the frontrunners (and maybe the Club for Growth) seems to be bothered by the prospect of a Huckabee-Obama presidential race.
(via Justin Taylor)