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Yesterday was an extra weird college football day. Let’s get started…starting with two top-five upsets.

Top 10 disruptions

Georgia, Miami are going down

• CFP No. 16 Ole Miss 28, No. 2 Georgia 10: For the first time in 52 games, Georgia lost to a team not named Alabama. Lane Kiffin needed this win to keep his team’s College Football Playoff hopes alive and quiet doubters about his big-game potential (he hadn’t won over an AP top-five player since 2011 at USC). team coached). Georgia’s three fourth-quarter drives showed how frustrating this game was for the Dawgs, resulting in an interception, a strip sack and a turnover on downs.
• Georgia Tech 28, No. 4 Miami 23: The Hurricanes narrowly avoided upsets against Virginia Tech and Cal, but they lived on the edge and overtook them at Georgia Tech (a known kryptonite for the Canes). Yellow Jackets QB Haynes King made his first start in nearly a month and attempted just six passes due to a blow to his shoulder. But King and his team made up for it on the ground, defeating Miami 271-88. As for last year’s kneeling gate, oh yeah, Georgia Tech won’t let that go either.

Only in college football

Ranking of strangeness

Here are the other bizarre things that happened on Saturday, ranked from 🤯 (absolutely unique) to 🤯 🤯🤯🤯 (you MUST see this).

🤯 Indiana is 10-0 for the first time EVER after beating Michigan 20-15. Hoosiers coach Curt Cignetti isn’t done yet either, shrugging off his team’s historic start in a postgame interview: “What are we 10-0? … Not bad.” But here’s the real kicker. Cignetti’s daughter, Natalie, got engaged on the field after the game when the jumbotron read: “Natalie, every day with you is 10-0, will you marry me?” IU, clearly in the Big Ten title and CFP picture, is truly having a season like no other.

🤯 🤯🤯 Texas Tech fans have been known to throw tortillas on the field at kickoff, but with Colorado in town, the decades-long tradition got some extra flair. Improves bidirectional star Travis Hunter grabbed a tortilla and stuffed it down his pants before the game started. Later, Colorado QB Shedeur Sanders signed a tortilla, telling reporters, “They kept throwing them at me, so I had to sign one.” No. 21 Colorado defeated Texas Tech 41-27 to take sole possession of second place in the Big 12.

🤯 🤯 Ole Miss has a squirrel problem… or maybe a squirrel good luck charm. The No. 16 Rebels are now 2-0 in games with squirrel performances (yesterday’s win vs. Georgia and a win vs. Oklahoma on Oct. 26). With just one regular-season home game remaining in Oxford, the Squirrel is on track to keep his redshirt.

🤯🤯🤯 LSU announced this week that it would release a live tiger before the game against Alabamabut instead of regular mascot Mike VII, a tiger named Omar Bradley would be sent from Florida for the pregame show (he was still introduced as Mike, which was received with a mix of cheers and boos). To add another wrinkle, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) filed a complaint and requested action against the animal’s owner in Florida. That was probably the most dramatic part of this SEC showdown. No. No. 11 Alabama comfortably defeated No. 14 LSU 42-13, essentially eliminating the Tigers’ CFP chances as Garrett Nussmeier and the LSU offense went cold and Jalen Milroe wreaked havoc on Brian Kelly’s squad for the second season in a row.

🤯🤯🤯🤯 The The Jacksonville State-Louisiana Tech ending was one of the wildest of the weekend. After trailing for the entire second half, JSU came back to tie the score with a 49-yard Hail Mary as time expired. The Gamecocks were an extra point away from winning the game…but the kick went wide and the game went to overtime with the score tied at 37. JSU prevailed in OT, winning 44-37 to remain up tied in the Conference USA standings with Western Kentucky.

🤯🤯🤯🤯 But the ultimate strange ending goes to No. 9 BYU holding off Utah 22-21. The Utes looked like they had the game in the bag, pressuring Cougars QB Jake Retzlaff deep in BYU territory and sacking him on fourth-and-10. But BYU got a first down on a Utes call and took advantage to take the lead with a 44-yard field goal. Utah AD Mark Harlan criticized Big 12 officials afterward, saying “the game was absolutely stolen from us.” Just look at the Cougars’ winning streak late in the second half, and you’ll understand why we’re glad this Holy War rivalry is back as a conference affair.

Predictions for the play-offs

SMU goes up, Georgia goes down

Here is my projection for Tuesday’s CFP rankings:

• ACC: SMU (8-1) should become the top-ranked ACC team and is expected to earn a first-round bye. The No. 12 Mustangs, who gave up nine years of ACC TV revenue to compete in the conference, sit alone atop the ACC rankings after their bye week. Miami (9-1) will take a big dip from No. 4 and fall out of the Playoff projection.
• SEC: Texas (8-1) should jump into pole position in the SEC. The Longhorns defeated Florida 49-17 as Quinn Ewers threw for a season-high 333 yards and five touchdowns. There are only two other one-loss teams in the conference (Texas A&M and Tennessee). I could see the Vols jumping into the top five, and the committee will appreciate Alabama’s win against LSU. The committee will anger Ole Miss (8-2) fans by keeping Georgia (7-2) in the field based on its win over Texas.
• Big Ten: The three teams with the best chance to make the CFP, according to Austin Mock, all rule from the Big Ten (Oregon, Ohio State and Indiana). The committee should keep Oregon and Ohio State at Nos. 1 and 2. I see Penn State moving into the top five and Indiana moving up two spots to No. 6 (the Hoosiers won’t jump over the Nittany Lions because the committee already showed its hand there). There’s a BIG drop off from the Big Ten’s top four, but the conference should be happy with the fact that it’s well-positioned for four teams to make the field.
• Big 12: It looked like BYU (9-0) was going to stumble, but the Cougars survived and so did their CFP hopes. Outside of the Playoff round, the biggest move in the Big 12 will come from 7-1 Colorado, which should move up a few spots and has a legitimate chance to control its destiny with a shot at the conference title and a CFP bid.
• Group of 5: Had BYU lost, I would have predicted that Boise State (8-1) would be ahead of the top Big 12 team and earn a first-round bye, but the Cougars held on, making Boise State the representative of the G5 would remain and be a participant in the first round. The Broncos defeated Nevada 28-21 yesterday in a game put away (of course) by Ashton Jeanty.

Quick snaps

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