1. What It All Means: Week 13
What’s so strange about the season is how so many huge college football things are happening or about to happen, and it’s all just sort of chalked up to this being so – sorry – 2020.
It’s to the point now where it’s almost a foregone conclusion that Jim Harbaugh and Tom Herman are going to be fired.
Those aren’t two random head coaches at directional Group of Five state schools. That’s, respectively, the head coach at the University of Michigan and the head coach at the University of Texas we’re talking about.
Penn State started 0-5 for the first time in the program’s history, and it beat Michigan. Penn State beating Michigan is supposed to shake up the college football world – okay, fine. It’s just a weird year.
Week 13 Roundup
Rankings AP | Coaches | CFN 1-127 Rankings
CFP Top 25 Prediction | Week 13 Early Lines
Bowl Projections | Week 13 Scoreboard
Rutgers is pretty good at football. LSU is pretty bad at football. Michigan State beat Northwestern and it actually had College Football Playoff implications – at least a wee bit.
Wisconsin can’t get on the field, Ohio State is a missed game away from probably seeing all its championship dreams go down the drain, and Nebraska is still awful because head coach Scott Frost just can’t get this engine to turn over.
And now, while games being canceled or moved has become a daily ritual, and with the pandemic keeping this season hanging on by a shoestring, the biggest things of all are about to happen.
This is normally the weekend we’re about to figure out the College Football Playoff, but instead, we’re soon going to get Notre Dame against Clemson for the ACC championship. We’re almost certain to get Iowa State in the Big 12 title game against Oklahoma, and we’re going to have a discussion about Group of Five programs that really might belong in the playoff.
And we’re going to get to see the Florida and Alabama offenses go toe-to-toe in the SEC title game in a battle for the conference title, a College Football Playoff spot, and maybe the Heisman.
Hopefully.
We’ve come this far, and we’re so close to getting this season in, taking a breath, and hoping to start 2021 almost like normal.
Now we just need the biggest thing about the 2020 season to not be for it to all shut down just before the finish.
– Week 13 Winners & Losers
– Sarah Fuller kicked a football: One Really Big Thing
– Rivalry weekend?: Most Overrated Thing
– Oregon St 41, Oregon 38: Most Underrated Thing
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