One of the few times I’ve been happy to see UCLA win.
Saw this in The Athletic this morning. (paywalled)
For the first time since their head-to-head series began in 1896, Colgate has pulled ahead of Cornell, 52-51-3. Cornell won 13 of the first 14 games in their David vs. Goliath competition by a combined score of 190-15 (including a tie), but Colgate was apparently playing the long game and resolved to catch the Cornell Red by 2025.
Unranked Texas just shocked No. 6 Oklahoma in a fairly solid beating.
Indiana improves to 6-0 with a road win against #3 Oregon.
This is the Hoosiers’ first road win against an AP Top 5 opponent in program history. They lost their first 46 such contests.
Indiana will be ranked in the top 5 next week. If ChatGPT is to be believed, that will be the first time since 1945 that they have been ranked that high.
Auburn fell completely apart with 2 minutes to go in the first half. Between a bunch of “Under review” calls (The fumble at the goal was a terrible call, IMO), horrible coaching decisions (play calling and calling for a play review) and a couple of stupid penalties (targeting, and roughing the passer) Auburn just choked the game away.
I think the last two minutes of the first half took 45 minutes to play.
Penn St. drops a second in a row!
SC looked pretty good picking apart #15 Michigan. I’m happy.
Uh, Yeah! That’s the Ticket!
Nittany Lions also lost their starting QB for the season with road games at Iowa and Ohio State next up. Followed by Indiana at home. Their season appears to be in deep trouble.
Can’t verify but I saw a tweet yesterday that it was the first time in 30 years years that a team favored by more than 20 points had lost two straight outright.
Kudos to Indiana, who look so tough.
Ohio State, Miami (FL) and Indiana are now ranked first, second, and third. Indiana got a first-place vote and is ranked in the top 3 for the first time in program history.
On the other end of the Bowl Eligible Watch, besides bowl-banned Akron, we may have our first bowl-ineligible team of the season: Oregon State is 0-7, and I have heard nothing about the Pac-12 getting rid of its “teams that have five or fewer wins must decline bowl bids” policy.
But they could still win the conference!
They (Penn State) also fired their head coach today.
Actually, up through 2016, a team with a losing record could go to a bowl game if (a) it won its conference championship and (b) the conference had a contract with a bowl that said that its champion would go to that bowl.
UAB fired coach Trent Dilfer after their 3rd straight loss. In his 2+ seasons in Birmingham, the team had a 9-21 record.
Major power coaching changes are such fun times on college football message boards. It will be no exception with Penn State.
You know who scares me? Again? Freaking Alabama. While they don’t have quite the dominating lineup as they did during the Saban Reign of Terror, I think the Simpson kid at QB is quietly really good.