We are overreacting to yesterday’s results

Yes, yesterday was really fun for a lot of people, but everyone says that this proves “any given Saturday” is real, and that parity has taken over the sport, is really getting ahead of themselves.

What really happened yesterday?

1. #14 Tennessee beat #6 Alabama at home. Hot damn! It sucks for us Alabama fans but shite like this has happened all the time in the TSIO.

2. #8 BYU beat #2 Notre Dame at home. Once again…hot damn! It was an epic game between two Top 10 teams that came down to the final drive. How often have we seen that in college football during our lifetimes? Quite a bit actually.

3. #4 Ohio State beat #5 Indiana on the road. Hot damn! A Top 5 matchup between two fairly evenly matched teams comes down to the final drive. Once again, how often have we seen this in our lifetimes?

4. Unranked Florida beat #7 Texas on the road. This is an actual upset. Well done, Florida. However, this same Florida team was ranked as high as #8 just two weeks ago and is now back in the Top 25 after a couple of head scratching losses.

5. Unranked Auburn beat #1 Georgia on the road. This was the only true WTF? game of the whole weekend and the biggest upset of the season so far. However, this isn’t unprecedented as unranked teams have toppled top ranked teams in the past.


What is unprecedented is that, for all the apparent chaos this weekend wrought in the world of college football, next year such a weekend will be much less impactful due to the fact that every team that lost will be relatively safe from CFP elimination. As a result, it becomes just another weekend in the schedule, akin to your typical NFL Sunday. If that’s what you have wanted CFB to become then congratulations, you got your wish.