2021-22 NCAA Football (Week 8)

Games I watched (some of): Not much, seriously I ran errands and shit, this slate left me cold. 

I did see a chunk of the 4th quarter off Illinois-Penn State, where I was mostly just looking up thinking, 'Okay, Penn State, whenever you're ready'. Illinois had a sequence at the beginning of the 4th quarter, where they kept scoring TD's and getting them taken off for penalties. It just felt like they were never going to score again. They kicked the FG to tie it up and that was all it took. 9 OT's later they stole the W. Wow, what a lame loss for the Nittany Lions. Illinois is not a good team and they didn't even play particularly well in this game and after 9 overtimes, Penn State still couldn't outscore them. Jeez!

Top 25

Handled their business

(2) Cincinnati, (3) Oklahoma, (4) Alabama, (6) Michigan, (10) Oregon, (12) Ole Miss, (13) Notre Dame, (16) Wake Forest, (17) Texas A&M, (21) Southern Methodist, (22) San Diego State, (23) Pittsburgh, (24) UT-San Antonio

Bad beat

(25) Purdue. They snuck into the rankings simply because they stung overrated Iowa the previous week. Nice W but they're not as good as Wisconsin (a good team for three quarters that can't finish games).

Not so good

(7) Penn State. Bad loss, bad bad bad loss. Clearly they were looking ahead to the tough part of their schedule. Illinois was the trap game and they fell for it. 

(8) Oklahoma State. Meh. Not sure they're really any better than Iowa State. This is a bad beat except that the Cowboys were so highly ranked. 

(14) Coastal Carolina. App State claims another one! Felt like Coastal had that kind of monster offense that would just keep getting W's, but Boone don't go easy. 

(18) North Carolina State. I was getting impressed by their good W's over Clemson and Boston College, but they fell for the Hurricane. Tsk tsk. 

Next week's interesting matches:

(6) Michigan @ (8) Michigan State (all right, time for the B-10 to unpack itself)

(10) Ole Miss @ (18) Auburn (finally feels like we've figured the next two best teams in the SEC West, this could be a fun game)

(20) Penn State @ (5) Ohio State (okay, all B-10 this weekend)