Minnesota (2-0) is coming off a bye and won’t start Big Ten play until next week. The defending Big Ten champions went on the road and steamrolled a Notre Dame team that was desperate to keep its slim playoff hopes alive. Up next for Minnesota is a weekend in the Hoosier state, with matches at in and Purdue.
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As always, individual rankings can be found in the graphic at the bottom of the page. 11-1 Florida State would likely grab a spot in the top 10, even with a blowout loss at Louisville. No other schools have the ability to reload year in and year out they way they do. They’re certainly off to a good start. He then trotted out both quarterbacks to the media on Tuesday night where they just dragged the media in circles.
J.T. Barrett threw a touchdown on 20 percent of his passes and Noah Brown hauled in all four of them. Michigan, which hasn’t played tough competition yet but has won every game by double digits, is No. 4 in the Associated Press poll and No. 5 by the USA Today coaches’ poll.
With Michigan needing a boost during its slow start against Colorado and trailing 14-0 when Michael Jocz blocked a punt, Grant Perry eventually scooped up the football and returned it 6 yards for a score.
Ohio State is the youngest team in the Football Bowl Subdivision, but had no problem playing in a hostile environment against Oklahoma.
Rutgers had a relatively easy weekend, beating last-place Maryland 1-0 in a physical game. They beat up on Oklahoma 42-24 in a game that finished much later than expected due to the weather. NDSU also absolutely mashed Iowa with its rush defense, holding the Hawkeyes to only 39 yards rushing on an abysmal 1.4-yard clip. The biggest surprise was Nebraska, who joined the Top 25 this week, upsetting Oregon.
For years, the SEC has been hailed as the best conference in college football.
Iowa got bumped out of the AP Top 25 on Sunday after losing to FCS power North Dakota State.
Their Big Ten schedule opens with home games against Rutgers and IN before they travel to Madison to face Wisconsin on October 15.
There is something to be said about having a week off before delving into Big Ten play. Oh and then the Cornhuskers visit. “They both have to do a great job of preparation”. It was a quality win for sure, but I’m not sure why they leapfrogged so many teams in the latest AP poll. Saquon Barkley did his thing and Trace McSorely had an efficient passing day sans his one interception.
No. 7 Stanford (-3) at UCLA: The Bruins lost at Texas A&M and struggled to get past BYU last week, yet are still only a three-point underdog against a Stanford team that handled USC with relative ease last week.
A win is a win right? Coaches around the nation have a handful of recent examples of players casually dropping the football to the turf before officially scoring that they could show their teams as a reminder about the importance of maintaining possession all the way across the goal line. Ohio State, Michigan State and Nebraska looked sharp against ranked opponents.
Row row row your boat, go to 2-0. Sparty got a little lazy after going up 36-7 but made it out of South Bend with a big win.
“Just because games before were (close) doesn’t mean this one is going to be”.
QB Chad Kelly gets a chance to do something this Saturday very few ever have before – record back-to-back wins over Alabama in consecutive seasons.
And the Wildcats are on the board! And he thinks the Demon Deacons are a good Power 5 foe to help IN continue preparations for nine straight weeks of Big Ten play. Party on kids, party on. Those two wins were OR over Virginia and Washington over Rutgers.
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In two games of action, Hornibrook is 13-of-17 for 183 yards and two touchdowns.
