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A week ago, the college football world celebrated Notre Dame’s road win at Texas A&M as one of the toughest of the weekend and, given their remaining schedule, christened the Irish as one of the favorites to reach the College Football Playoff.
So, about that schedule…
Week 2 brought us a few Saturday hangovers, none bigger than Notre Dame’s loss at home to Northern Illinois. Oof! Penn State was a bit groggy, too. The Nittany Lions trailed most of the game against Bowling Green before pulling off a seven-point win.
That wasn’t the case for the Irish, which dropped another puzzling game under Marcus Freeman. Remember the losses to Stanford and Marshall during his first year and last year’s blowout at Louisville? The loss to UNI may be the worst of them all.
For the Huskies of the MAC, it’s their first top-10 win in school history and it gets them into our own Top 10!
What else happened in Week 2?
Well, let’s start with Texas, which marched up to Ann Arbor and marched over Michigan in one of the most dominating and impressive performances so far this year. Pitt and Oklahoma State stormed back from double-digit deficits to get wins over Cincinnati and Arkansas. And Kansas State needed a controversial offensive pass interference call to survive Tulane.
Did you see what happened at Jordan-Hare Stadium? Cal — yes, Cal of the ACC — made the cross-country trip to Auburn and won, 21-14. The SEC is 5-6 against other power leagues in the non-conference slate so far.
Also, we had two last-second field goals for the win in Iowa City (Iowa State over Iowa) and College Park (Michigan State over Maryland).
Enough said. Let’s get to the Top 10!
A reminder about our rankings: We do not consider any preseason polls or any past season results. What happened in the past is, well, in the past. It’s who you’ve beaten and how…
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Author : Yahoo Sports
Publish date : 2024-09-08 06:00:59
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