The Really Big College Football Thing Was …
Mediocre performances by teams that need to kick it all in.
1000% guilty as charged on this, but it’s always funny how everyone – again, me, too – loves to yell at great teams for not blasting mediocre teams by a gajillion.
It’s like they’re not trying hard enough, or not fully focused, or don’t quite get that their performances are affecting all of our daily lives. However, at this time of year, appearances matter.
This was supposed to be a light week in the race for big things. North Carolina was supposed to beat Wake Forest, so that wasn’t a stunner, and almost no one thought Michigan State would just roll through Purdue.
But Alabama 20, LSU 14? That came out of nowhere.
The Tide D rose up when it had to, and any landing you can walk away from is a good one in the big Power Five conferences, but that wasn’t exactly confidence-inspiring from an Alabama team that lost to Texas A&M and had issues with what turned out to be a mediocre Florida squad.
Washington was struggling all year to do much of anything, but this was when Oregon was going to get up for the big rivalry game and make a statement that it’s absolutely one of the four best teams in college football.
RB Travis Dye was special and the Ducks won by ten in a driving rainstorm for half the the game, but … meh.
Nebraska plays everyone strong, but we know how that works. It gives it the old college try, and then loses because it’s not all that great at football right now. Even so, Ohio State got the No. 5 ranking by the CFP – it was going to show that the Oregon loss was an aberration and … whatever. 26-17 over the Huskers.
Michigan State and Wake Forest might have been the only two huge CFP losers up top, but no one looked all that great. This is when we’re supposed to find that team that can challenge Georgia at some point, and at the moment, no one is doing it.
And the College Football Playoff committee is watching.
This goes triple for …
– SEC games, Big Ten Os Winners & Losers
– UC & CFP expansion: Most Overrated Thing
– Clemson coming back: Most Underrated Thing
– Georgia’ coronation: What It All Means, Week 10