We've talked about Sleeping Giants. How about Sleeping Midgets? Teams that ...

probably should not be doing as well as they are and are just a piss-poor coach or other decision away from joining the nobodies of college football.

I'll start:

1. Auburn. I always thought Auburn was a sleeping midget. They are in Opelika, and play in the huge shadow of Alabama in a state that doesn't produce the number of recruits needed to produce two elite state football programs.

They were great for awhile, but what put them back with the midgets was Georgia awakening as a sleeping Giant. Now they live in the huge shadow of two better schools that have more money, a bigger fan base, and better football programs.

2. Tennessee. The talent base in Tennessee just isn't there. The vols need to feed heavily from Georgia, Florida and other states with more and better talent. Again, the Georgia awakening may have punished Tennessee more than Auburn.

3. Nebraska. I mean - why were they ever a blue blood? In the middle of nowhere in a state that doesn't produce the level or amount of talent to remain elite. Once they started in on the coach merry-go-round, they quickly awakened the midget.

Current teams that are doing well, but are sleeping midgets:

1. Ole Miss. They need a huge hook to get into elite status. Kiffin provided it, Golding won't.

2. Clemson. They aren't really doing well this year, but made the CFP last year and are generally seen in the recent past as an elite program. Dabo's stupidity as to NIL is awakening Clemson's sleeping midget big time.