Deja vu for Penn State, SMU’s ascendance headline winners and losers from Week 10 of the college football season

STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA – NOVEMBER 02: Mascot Brutus Buckeye of the Ohio State Buckeyes celebrates with players after defeating the Penn State Nittany Lions 20-13 at Beaver Stadium on November 02, 2024 in State College, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Scott Taetsch/Getty Images)

It’s a small sample size, so I’ll wait to draw too many outsized conclusions. But I’m starting to think the changes in college football — from the 12-team playoff to the transfer portal to NIL — have managed to increase the parity in the sport.

We’re already in the month of November, 10 weeks into the 2024 season, and we still have lots of questions about how the inaugural expanded playoff field will even look, let alone who will ultimately hoist the championship trophy at season’s end.

Week 10 didn’t answer those questions completely, though it did provide a bit more clarity in some ways, namely in the Big Ten. Ohio State knocked off Penn State yet again, keeping its Big Ten title hopes alive and likely setting up a rematch against Oregon if the Buckeyes can get past a red-hot Indiana team in a few weeks.

In the rest of the Power Four, the same isn’t exactly true. The SEC looks as wide open as it’s been in years after frontrunner Texas A&M took its first conference loss to South Carolina, while the Big 12 and ACC each saw top-10 teams — in addition to other conference title contenders — go down.

With four weeks left in the regular season, here are our winners and losers from Week 10.

Winner: Ohio State gets it done yet again

STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA – NOVEMBER 02: Gee Scott Jr. #88 of the Ohio State Buckeyes celebrates with teammates after defeating the Penn State Nittany Lions 20-13 at Beaver Stadium on November 02, 2024 in State College, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Scott Taetsch/Getty Images)

This year’s game over Penn State played out pretty…

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Publish date : 2024-11-04 22:32:34

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