What It All Means: Week 2
You wanted something different, well we’re at least on our way to a weird and wild 2021.
At the end of the season, it might just be Alabama raising another national championship trophy and Nick Saban getting another confetti shower, but no matter how this all shakes out, the journey has already been fascinating.
Someone had to lose the Georgia-Clemson game, but now Clemson has a loss and doesn’t necessarily control its own playoff destiny.
Meanwhile, Georgia QB JT Daniels has a core abdominal injury. The Dawgs are fine for now, but if this lingers or if he’s not able to go in a few weeks against Florida. the dynamic changes.
Ohio State losing to Oregon is obviously a big deal, but the Ducks don’t exactly have it easy. If they can win in Columbus they can win anywhere. However, they still have to go on the road to play Stanford, UCLA, Washington, and Utah, and potentially a Pac-12 Championship.
It’s Oregon. After losing three of its final four games last year, or biffing a chance at the CFP with a loss at Arizona State in 2019, or failing to lose fewer than four games in a season since playing for the national championship in 2014, the program still has to prove it.
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Texas A&M needed everything in the bag to get out of Colorado with a win, Notre Dame looks awful, Iowa State looks worse, and Florida has been a wee bit off – not the running game, though – as it tries to rebuild.
Are you buying Iowa yet? It still has to go on the road to face Wisconsin and has to deal with Penn State.
Are you certain Oklahoma is going to roll through a flaky Big 12? Yeah, okay, it probably will, but in a strange way a killer Sooner team would be a tad bit different from the normal Alabama-Clemson-Ohio State thing.
Maybe the world falls in deep love with Cincinnati after it goes on the road to face Indiana and Notre Dame over the next few weeks. Maybe UCLA is just that good. Maybe Penn State’s O will catch up to its D. Maybe Harbaugh really does have the right mix in Ann Arbor.
Maybe something crazy happens like Auburn catches fire and goes on a run, or Virginia Tech’s defense takes over the ACC, or the Ole Miss offense takes over the SEC, or …
It’s only Week 3, but there are whole slew of interesting possibilities now that the some of the sure-thing stars are wobbling a bit.
And the conference season hasn’t even kicked in yet.
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