This team will also have to win the title game. Here is a look at the biggest losers from Week 9 of the college football season. The Buckeyes only loss came at the hands of an unranked Penn State team while the Badgers dropped games to MI and Ohio State. What a win for the MAC.
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Both had played Clemson and Florida within a two-week span. Will Alabama fall with upcoming games against LSU and Auburn? South Florida jumped out to a red hot start, scoring on three runs to go up 21-0 in the first quarter on its way to a 42-14 halftime lead at home. With the new staff, the Tigers might have a top five team on their hands.
Alabama, Michigan, Clemson and Washington are the only Power 5 conference teams who have won every game so far, but no one is going to make it to the playoffs without a November to remember. Still a contender in the SEC West, A&M plays against Ole Miss.
Both teams are coming off byes.
Clemson also has arguably the best win in the country – a 42-36 victory over Louisville, the top-ranked team with a loss in the nation. He delivered in the clutch again, highlighting his 430 yards of offense with a 34-yard touchdown pass to tight end Jordan Leggett with about two minutes to play in the win over Florida State. This just isn’t that good of a team.
Looking rather mediocre, the Pac-12 has just one team with fewer than two losses, and that’s Washington. Louisville and Texas A&M, though, could win their remaining games and likely be left out of the ACC and SEC championship games, thus making it highly unlikely to make the playoff field.
This looked like the year that Boise State would return to its glory days of the mid-2000s. The Broncos will probably be in the Cotton Bowl, though.
INDIANS FAN: Linebacker Chris Worley, a Cleveland Glenville graduate, says he has watched every Cleveland Indians game in the World Series. Peppers made several key defensive plays, scored a touchdown on offense, and capped off the scoring for the game by picking up a loose ball on a failed two-point conversion by MSU and running it almost 80 yards to the end zone for a two-point conversion.
That’s how the first ranking from the College Football Playoff selection committee is near-certain to look on Tuesday – well, maybe Clemson and MI will be switched – but here’s the bad news. And back then Saturday night’s match-up was not considered one of the marquee games on OSU’s schedule. A loss in Columbus could put their chances of going to the Big Ten title game at risk with the Badgers now having the advantage in a potential tiebreaker scenario. Yes, that Kentucky. The bad Kentucky. It was hard to know who was better for the Cowboys, quarterback Josh Allen (3 touchdowns and 274 passing yards) or running back Brian Hill (146 rushing yards) in a program-defining victory.
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This game could be sneaky good. But wait, Penn State beat Ohio State, but the Lions lost to Pitt, who lost to Virginia Tech, who got blown out by Tennessee. Wisconsin has yet to clinch the Big Ten West, and doesn’t even control its own destiny, so it needs a win against the Wildcats.
