This week in US college football

This week’s upset summary in US college football #25, 20,17,16,15,14,11,9, 3 ALL go down in flames in Week 10. (Note: I normally write about energy issues but in a different forum I write about football upsets in the NCAAF. Just a test to see if my LinkedIn followers have any interest in seeing this. If so, please let me know)

Not so many upsets as last week but more highly ranked teams go down in flames… and some fun games. 

A few near misses with lowly Nebraska leading Ohio State later in the game than anyone expected —but no one ever thinking they’d win. It was a close call in Lubbock as Texas Tech went up 14-0 over OU at the beginning of the game but at the end, Tech went for a 2-point conversion that was intercepted and run back 100 yards for 2 its for OU. 51-46 final score.

Neither team ranked but Oklahoma State at Baylor was a wild one with Baylor scoring a come from behind touchdown with 7 seconds left to beat a very strong OSU team 35-31. Remember, this is the OSU team that beat Texas last week!

Speaking of wild ones, South Carolina and Ole Miss combined for 1,126 yards in a back and forth battle of two unranked teams that at least had winning records. Oh yeah, SC was leading as the clock expired 48-44

Loads of close calls but none more amazing than snake bit Nebraska nearly upending Ohio State. But when you are snake bit, you find a way to lose as the Cornhuskers did including a kickoff in which the kicker missed the ball and nearly tripped on it,. The other close call I liked was W. Virginia and Texas. Two ranked teams back and forth. 

NOW FOR THE UPSETS and Ranked team losses

#25 Virginia fell to unranked Pittsburgh which now has a winning season going after 4 losses, 3 of which were to highly ranked teams. No surprise here as I was not sure how UVA got to #25 except for last week’s house cleaning

#20 Texas A&M loses to Auburn in Alabama. Not a shocker in spite of A&M’s ranking. This one was close.

#17 THE BEST GAME OF THE DAY (unless you were a UT fan) but it had everything, back and forth battle till the end when West Virginia (ranked 13 but on the road, so this isn’t an upset per se) scored to make the game 41-40 and went for 2 points in the closing seconds. 

#16 Iowa suffers a last second defeat at Purdue but the Boilermakers are much better than their 4-4 record…they started with 3 losses but beat the then #2 Ohio State team.

#15 Utah loses badly to a then 4-4 Arizona State team. this one will sting for a while. 

#14 Penn State slaughtered in Ann Arbor by  #5 Michigan. Ugly. 42-7 (with PSU only scoring late in the game). 

#11 Florida SLAUGHTERED in Gainesville by a 4-4 Missouri team. First, no one has any idea how the committee ranked Florida that high. Both Kentucky and Florida grossly overrated last week. 3 of Missouri’s losses were to Alabama, Georgia and Kentucky. 

#9 Kentucky lost to #6 UGA34-17 but it wasn’t that close. Kentucky definitely doesn’t belong in the top 10. The problem is that only about 6 teams belong in the top 10.

#3 LSU falls to #1 Alabama 29-0. That’s at home for LSU. 

Honorable mention upsets. 

Hapless UT El Paso hasn’t won a game all year. Or last year. In fact they were riding a 20 game losing streak and managed to beat the Rice Owls at home….not that home field advantage has meant much to Rice. Did I mention how great Rice’s baseball team is?

Duke goes to Miami and wins.

SMU was 3-5 and U of H was 7-1 before today’s game and I was as surprised as the Mustangs were when they won fairly handily. The Cougars were stunned.

Least interesting news in the top 25.UCF remains unbeaten after a victory of YET ANOTHER unranked team. They play exactly ZERO ranked teams with combined records of 27-40. Ranking UCF at #12 is a joke. 

Princeton is 8-0 and the teams they have played have a better W-L record than UCF’s opponents. Maybe we should use the same logic and rank them.