The Most Underrated Thing Was …
Home field advantage.
Duh, teams play better at home.
Two weeks ago Oklahoma State played TCU on the road. Loss. Last week it played Texas at home. Win.
No big deal, right?
All four Big 12 games this weekend were won by the home team.
I know, I know, whoop-dee-doo. By the way, all four Big 12 home teams won the week before. That sort of matters because outside of things happening with Iowa State all of these games are high scoring, and most of them are close enough to make the familiar surroundings the possible difference.
West Virginia got blasted by Texas Tech in Lubbock. The week before the Mountaineers beat Baylor in Morgantown.
In conference play, all four Pac-12 home teams won two weeks ago, all were good fights, and there was even the freakish anomaly of Colorado beating Cal to go along with Utah’s win over USC.
Last weekend? Washington got by Cal in Berkeley – the Huskies are a better team at home and lost a few weeks ago at Arizona State – and the other three games were won by the home side including Oregon over UCLA.
You’re still not there. I got it.
Oh, all four SEC home teams won vs other SEC teams last weekend including LSU over Ole Miss, South Carolina over Texas A&M, and Bama over Mississippi State. The week before that? 4-1 with LSU over Florida the only blip.
The Big Ten? Last weekend the home side went 5-0. The week before? 4-1 with Maryland slipping by Indiana.
The ACC hasn’t followed the fun, but on Saturday four home teams won with Duke’s win over Miami the outlier, but the Canes lost QB Tyler Van Dyke in that.
Now, if Ohio State loses at Penn State and TCU is taken down at West Virginia this weekend …
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– Oregon is a player now One Really Big Thing
– Whining about Clemson Most Overrated Thing
– The season is taking a break What It All Means