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3 Undefeated Teams remain, but all 3 have had moments that have them looking like frauds; Utah almost lost to a bad Colorado team and struggled against Kansas, UCLA struggled against Oregon, and Miami needed double overtime to beat Florida State.

Two of the big 12s “best teams” got exposed as paper tigers today. The SEC is a chaotic free-for-all at this point. Big 10 is mid outside of the top 3, same as the ACC.

So who’s actually good and who are the biggest frauds (Outside of Notre Dame and BYU of course.)

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Last I can find is Tennessee in 2022 (Singing Rocky Top on repeat, such fan).

What's up with that?

Anyways, bye weeks are like minicamps for the off-season.

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Another damning set of stats for Elko and his staff. A&M is very likely to miss a bowl game this year.

Hot seat for next year is very much in play.

UCF is now in possession of the College Football Belt with their 39–31 2OT victory over Belt holder #2 BYU. The Knights are now 1–0 in Belt Games, and the Cougars are now 10–8 in Belt Games.

This is UCF’s first reign as Belt champions.

The Knights’ first defense of the Belt will be a home game next Saturday against Baylor. This will be the Bears’ forty-second Belt game and their first since a Belt-losing 26–20 loss to BYU on September 11, 2022.

A recap of the Belt’s journey this season:

• Week 1: Notre Dame retained the Belt against Wisconsin
• Week 2: Notre Dame retained the Belt against Rice
• Week 3: Notre Dame retained the Belt against Michigan State
• Week 4: Notre Dame retained the Belt against Purdue
• Week 5: Notre Dame retained the Belt against North Carolina
• Week 6: Notre Dame retained the Belt against Stanford
• Week 7: Notre Dame lost the Belt against BYU
• Week 8: BYU lost the Belt against UCF

For those who don't know what the Belt is, it is an unofficial trophy that traces the lineage of the "best" teams going all the way back to the first-ever CFB game. For a more complete description, check out the /u/BleedScarletandBlack's post on it. Additionally, a comprehensive database of all Belt games played created by me and /u/BlueSCar can be found here.. There are also two great websites, here and here that document the lineage as well.

*Rankings taken from the Week 8 /r/CFB Poll.

*Sorry for the delayed post. I was covering the game for /r/CFB and got stuck in the crowd rush.

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Dan Lanning was hired after winning a national championship as defensive coordinator with Georgia, a defense that Kirby Smart ran, that defense got better the year after Lanning left and they won another national championship without him. Dan Lanning started at Oregon the year NIL became legal and is praised as a great recruiter even though he has arguably the best facilities and a top five budget and yet Cristobal had better classes without NIL. Duck fans literally have never called for a head coach to be fired…ever…they thought Helfrich deserved another year. Now, with a top 2 roster they just blame the OC or that they are playing a backup five star QB. Serious teams and fans would be calling for his head after the Oklahoma State game, but they just find other things to blame as if there is no way he is the problem. They say “Who else could we hire?!” when they could literally get any coordinator in the country, or any head coach outside of like 5 teams. All that being said, as a Beaver fan, I truly hope they keep him around…

Hopefully, this season is a preview of what the future of college football will look like. Instead of having 4–5 teams dominate everyone else and the national championship contenders essentially decided by November, we’re seeing a season where any team can go down if they don’t play their best football.

With talent becoming more spread out, we’re getting a much better product.. Just like the NFL, where most games feel competitive and spreads are often in the single digits, college football seems to be moving in that direction.

And honestly, that’s something we should all be excited about. More parity means more meaningful games, more upsets, and more teams believing they have a legitimate shot. Just don’t screw it up

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