Yahoo Top 10: After a tumultuous Week 8 in the SEC, who belongs at No. 1?

Welcome to the real world, Alabama.

The real world is one in which your team doesn’t steamroll all others and advance to the College Football Playoff each season. The real world is being without Nick Saban (he now works for ESPN). The real world is having two losses in your first seven games (that happened just once under Saban: his first season in 2007).

The real world can be a harsh place. Brace yourselves.

The Tide’s 24-17 loss at Tennessee is a devastating blow to Bama’s conference title and playoff chances in the first year of the expanded postseason. And though the result didn’t directly impact our Top 10, the collective college football world is left asking itself: What’s going on in Tuscaloosa?

First-year coach Kalen DeBoer has big problems to fix before back-to-back games against ranked teams Missouri (at home) and LSU (on the road). The Tide play undisciplined football and make silly mistakes (15 penalties on Saturday). These are things we are not used to from them.

Welcome to the real world.

Let’s check in on other real world events, shall we? And, no, I’m not talking about the presidential election.

I’m talking about a pair of Big 12 teams, BYU and Iowa State, needing incredible, game-winning final drives to stay unbeaten. I’m talking about undefeated Indiana. And undefeated Army and Navy. Miami escaped again too and is now 7-0.

Saturday, as it often does, delivered some wild moments. Like Missouri quarterback Brady Cook returning from a midgame hospital visit to lead the Tigers to a comeback victory over spiraling Auburn. Or how about the wacky series of events that unfolded in Austin during Georgia’s dominant 30-15 win over Texas?

There was plenty of misery for a few fan bases. In Maryland, Lincoln Riley and the USC Trojans dropped a third straight game and a fourth in five games (they blew…

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Publish date : 2024-10-20 06:33:01

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