2022-23 NCAA Football (Week 9)

Games I saw (some of):

(14) Utah 21-17 Washington State

In and out of this game but it seemed to me that Utah was the vastly superior team, not sure why this was still a game in the 4th quarter. Utah looks likely to end up as the best 2-Loss team, would that be good enough in a 12 team tournament? (A little too early for that argument, Utes)

Florida 20-42 (1) Georgia

I'm not a huge fan of the Florida QB but I thought he could be enough of a wild card to throw UGA off. Yeah, not so much. Georgia moved the ball without much problem and quickly reminded us all that the Gators are just not that strong this season. UGA is playing like a #1team right now. 

(19) Kentucky 6-44 (3) Tennessee

Tennessee has never really had much trouble with Kentucky and the Wildcats have already had their season killing stumbles, but I thought this had a trap game written all over it and the Vols might stumble. Nope. The Vols were up to the task and made quick work of the Cats in a really impressive performance. (TBH, the bar I was in switched to the World Series at halftime and no one wanted to go back to football) The Vols got UGA next week, biggest game of the year so far.

Top 25

Handled their business

(1) Georgia, (2) Ohio State, (3) Tennessee, (4) Michigan. (7) Texas Christian, (8) Oregon, (11) Southern Cal, (12) UCLA, (14) Utah, (15) Mississippi, (17) Illinois, (21) North Carolina, (22) Kansas State

Won but did not impress

(24) North Carolina State. This is not a top 20 team, 

Bad beat

(13) Penn State. The Nittany Lions are nice but just not good enough to get past the giants of their conference right now. 

Not so good

(9) Oklahoma State. Whoa! WTF? I've been in on the Cowboys all season long, even kept with them after a tough L to TCU but, man, they were never in this game. Kansas State whomped the shit out of them from beginning to end--looked like they felt sorry for OSU in the 2nd half. Not a good look, Cowboys.

(10) Wake Forest. I've kinda liked Wake all year long but I never felt like they were a top 10 team and while I'm a little surprised how badly Louisville put in on them, I'm not shocked that they lost a road conference game but they're not that good. 

(16) Syracuse. If they were a for-real top 20 squad, they would've handled Notre Dame at home. 

(19) Kentucky. Tennessee was an opportunity for Kentucky to salvage the season (well, with the fans anyway) and the Cats couldn't get it done. Will they be back next year? We'll see.

(20) Cincinnati. If they deserved to be here, they would've won. 

(25) South Carolina. Losing at home to Missouri is not good.

Next week's intriguing matches:

(2) Tennessee @ (1) Georgia (okay, here we go)

(6) Alabama @ (16) Louisiana State (remember we wrote off LSU? Well, here they are with a shot to fuck up Bama's season. If this is still a game at halftime, then it's big deal)

(20) Wake Forest @ (21) North Carolina State (seriously, ACC? This is what you're bringing to the table?)