Posted on 10/10/2021 9:03:07 AM PDT by blam
Over the last two weeks, 10 teams ranked in the top 15 have lost, including seven in the top 10.
The last time the No. 1 team in the country lost to an unranked team was 2008.
The last time Alabama lost to an unranked team was 2007.
Texas A&M snapped both those streaks and brought true chaos to this college football season.
The Aggies dragged a two-game losing streak into Kyle Field on Saturday night, looking like one of the most disappointing teams in the country.
Then Texas A&M beat the mighty Crimson Tide, scoring almost as many points in a walk-off victory (41) as the Aggies had in three previous games (42) against Power Five opponents.
“We knew the last two weeks that we didn’t play to the best of our ability,” A&M defensive back Antonio Johnson told reporters. “We knew this week was an opportunity.”
A&M’s upset, the biggest victory of Jimbo Fisher’s tenure in College Station and the first over Nick Saban by one of his former assistants in 25 tries, capped yet another thrilling Saturday in a season that is trying hard to make up for the pandemic-plagued mess of 2020.
Saturday afternoon featured back-and-forth offensive outburst between ranked teams in the Big 12 (Oklahoma-Texas) and Southeastern Conference (Arkansas-Mississippi), and a top-five slugest (Penn State-Iowa) in the Big Ten.
At night, No. 14 Notre Dame and No. 9 Michigan needed late field goals to win from behind before Texas A&M topped them all with a stunning upset.
Over the last two weeks, 10 teams ranked in the top 15 have lost, including seven in the top 10.
A 2021 season that so many fans feared would be long march to the same old, same old, with super teams turning the College Football Playoff race....
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Don’t sleep on SMU, they’re unbeaten and still play Cincinnati.
And then there’s UTSA at 6-0.
Good coaches don’t kick the team when they’re down. Saban will build them back up.
Actually I was impressed with Mullen’s reaction at halftime even though the Gators were winning 21-0:
Davis: “Coach, we just saw you walking off with both your quarterbacks (Emory Jones and Anthony Richardson). What’s your message to them?”
Mullen: “Play better.”
Davis: “OK, fair enough. Vanderbilt, almost 50 plays on offense but no points. How would you assess your first half defensively?”
Mullen: “Awful.”
The time to lay into your team is when they are winning, but not playing well.
Check context.
Might have an easy path to the Big 12 championship game but will have to beat someone, likely Texas, a second time. No easy task.
Well, Texas A&M might be called TAMU, or A&M, or the Aggies, but they are NEVER called TX. There is a difference. On the other hand Texas might be Tx, the Longhorns, or the T-Sips.
One needs to be able to tell SEC teams apart.
I love the sound of that!
Ya, in a post about the Texas A&M vs. Alabama game, it’s hard to know who TX is referring to.....
In the SEC, “UT” means the University of Tennessee.
UT University of Tennessee
tu texas university in Austin. Moscow on the Colorado River.
Yep.
Well, I suppose it would be safe for the fans to wear orange if Tennessee plays Texas in a few years.
Good point. There's a story from the lore of the New York Giants football team in their 1986 championship season that relates to this.
They were 13-2 going into the last game of the season and had to beat a mediocre Green Bay team to clinch home field advantage through the playoffs. They were up 24-0 early but the Packers came back in the second quarter and they went into halftime at 24-17.
Coach Bill Parcells was so pissed off at the team's performance -- especially the defense -- that he went on a rampage in the locker room. He told the team they were playing like garbage, so he was going to treat them that way. He proceeded to storm around the locker room, picking up all the garbage cans one at a time, and then dumping the contents on the heads of the players as they sat there. I can't even imagine the sight of Bill Parcells dumping trash on the head of Lawrence Taylor. LMAO.
So the Giants went out in the second half and played like a team possessed. They steamrolled over Green Bay and ran away with the game. I think the final score was 55-24.
For the Giants, that incident actually started the tradition of dumping Gatorade over the head coach at the end of a big victory. Team captain Harry Carson swore he'd get his vengeance on Parcells someday, and he had his opportunity at the end of each lopsided postseason win over San Francisco, Washington and Denver.
I have given up predicting at this point. I think the Sooners just like to give me more gray hairs than I alreayd have. :-)
Their last 3 games are tough - Baylor, Iowa State, and arch-rivals Okie State in Stillwater. We shall see...
I hope the RATs will learn to fear that name.
I won’t declare these wanna-be teams dead as long as their winning
AZ ST is on ESPN ESPN3.
Ole Miss is surviving
Not many interesting games next week. Clemson at Pittsburgh
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2021-college-football-predictions/
... as long as they’re winning
Well since Iowa left me high and dry yesterday. I decided to go local and root for SMU. They are unbeaten and still have to play Cincinnati. But what if they win and run the table?
Im sure Cincy is the only team that can make it from USAA ... maybe SMU schedule is too weak
But I’d like to see it
Why does Pittsburgh get no respect?
Losing to Western Michigan tends to do that.
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