1. Georgia, 2-0, 2
2. Alabama, 2-0, 1
3. Ohio State, 2-0, 3
4. Michigan, 2-0, 4
5. Southern Cal, 2-0, 9
6. North Carolina State, 2-0, 7
7. Clemson 2-0, 8
8. Kentucky, 2-0, 20
9. Oklahoma, 2-0, 11
10. Arkansas, 2-0, 15
11. Miami, 2-0, 112
12. Michigan State, 2-0, 16
13. Brigham Young, 2-0, 25
14. Oklahoma State, 2-0, 17
15. Tennessee, 2-0, 18
16. Mississippi, 2-0, 19
17. Wake Forest, 2-0, 21
18. Texas, 1-1, 23
19. Utah, 1-1, 14
20. Kansas State, 2-0, NR
21. Minnesota, 2-0, NR
22. Mississippi State, 2-0, NR
23. Baylor, 1-1 10
24. Florida State, 2-0, NR
25. Florida, 1-1, 13
OUT: Texas A&M (5), Notre Dame (6), Pittsburgh (22) and Wisconsin (24).
NEXT: Penn State, Washington State, Texas A&M, Pittsburgh, Marshall, Oregon, Purdue, Iowa State, Cincinnati, Notre Dame, Syracuse, South Carolina, Auburn, Air Force, Texas Tech, Washington, Maryland, UCLA, LSU, TCU, Fresno State, North Carolina, and Appalachian State.
Who’s Hot: Washington State and the Sun Belt.
Did you see the Cougars win at Wisconsin? Man, they were playing hard, flying around the football on defense and running hard on offense. When you couple a great game plan with some players who hustled with heart, you got a buy in which can produce some big wins. Congrats to the Cougs!
Kentucky is in fact a strong program under Mark Stoops, and that was a really big win for the Cats at The Swamp. We thought it might be too tall an order. But Kentucky held in and made some key defensive plays and scored this eye opening win.
The Sub Belt, OMG! The Herd was thundering. Florida State transfer Kahlan Laborn ran for 163 leading Marshall as they rolled into South Bend controlling the game in upsetting Notre Dame. Huge win! Appalachian State, fresh off a heartbreaking overtime loss to North Carolina, wins at Aggieland placing heat on Jimbo Fisher. And the night culminated with Georgia Southern, who ran and threw all over a guessing Nebraska defense all night scoring a late touchdown to win at Lincoln, which appropriately resulted in the termination of Husker head man Scott Frost.
Speaking of Frost, I thought this was nothing short of a home run hire, and I am, astonished how badly this went. Accountability and poor recruiting (Huskers interior defense is short on dudes) seem to be the main culprits in this going sideways. But Frost, who cares about the Big Red as much as any Husker fan, know losing to Georgia Southern in year five after a 309 campaign is not going to get it done. We all wish him the very best.
Who’s Not: The Big Ten West comes to mind, with Iowa and Wisconsin suffering home losses as solid favorites, but it has to be Texas A&M.
The Aggies knew, or should have known, that App State was coming to play. Still, the talent laden Aggies labored around and failed to produce the offense needed to get the job done. Some folks had the Aggies as playoff team.
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