Now You Know: Never Leave a College Football Game Early

The main reason why you never leave a college football game early: College football is played by college students.

And college students, are, for the most part, idiots. (Moments from my freshman year: drinking a 40 oz. Budweiser and then singing "I Feel Pretty" from West Side Story while pirouetting around my dorm room. This led to vomiting and enforced celibacy.)

So you'll get moments like we had Saturday night at Husky Stadium: Arizona QB Nick Foles, who should've been handing the ball off to run down the clock, winging an ill-advised pass to a covered receiver, and having it bounce off the receiver's foot into the waiting arms of UW linebacker Mason Foster -- himself in the area because he'd decided to ignore his coaches' orders and blitz on the play--who grabs the ball and runs it into the end zone for a go-ahead score. (Here's a great breakdown of the play by the P-I's Greg Johns.)

They're calling it "The Immaculate Interception." Here's incredible video from the field-level: Foster comes right at you.

This never happens in the NFL. In the NFL, Foles hands off. Foster never blitzes. And the people who left a 12-point game with less than five minutes left don't feel silly when they flip the radio on in their cars and hear that the Huskies have scored 15 points in 18 seconds.

All you people who left: The drunk girl who'd been screaming for the Huskies (and refusing repeated entreaties to sit down) the entire game, the lunkhead who makes it his personal mission to urge our section to stand for every damn defensive third down--you fail at life.

After their miracle comeback win, which set Husky fans to honking horns and shouting for at least 30 minutes after gametime, the Dawgs find themselves back in the Pac-10 conference race.

If the Huskies win at Arizona State next week--and the Sun Devils do not have most formidable home advantage as home advantages go--the Washington/Oregon game at Husky Stadium on October 24 would be for a share of the Pac-10 lead.