While we’re all gathered here can I take a moment to pitch for October 15 to be a national holiday each year?
Back in 1988 it was the Catholics vs. Convicts that produced perhaps the most-known t-shirt in college football history before delivering an all-time epic game.
2005 saw the day feature absolutely insane finishes between Michigan and Penn State, Louisville and West Virginia, and the Bush Push Notre Dame-USC classic all on the same afternoon.
Then 2022 just saw another one of the all-time great Saturdays in the history of the sport that won’t soon be forgotten after Tennessee’s thrilling upset of Alabama, Oklahoma State and TCU’s double-overtime dandy, and Utah’s gutsy decision to go for two and beat previously unbeaten USC.
With the excitement of Saturday fresh in our minds, here is my first college football top 10 team rankings.