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University football is a volcano. It is dormant now, but the pressure ends up accumulating and all the molten rocks subjected to the Earth's physics constraints have to find a place to go, because there can be no lack of mass. The result is violent and devastating.
In twelve weeks, the 2018 season was primarily chalk-tinged, with the exception of the Ohio State which regularly draws a doke okie. Although this makes the sport a little less interesting, everything is about to be in the next two weeks. Many top 10 or top 15 teams hoping to qualify for the playoffs will face each other and the situation will be settled or chaos prevails.
Our Lady is somewhere in this mess. Due to her lack of participation in a conference, she will play another match this season: at USC, which has been imploding for several weeks now. Win by either a point or 50, and the Irish can sit down and watch every other team that counts trying to win one more win in the first week of December. For this reason, Notre Dame occupies the most enviable position in university football. With that in mind, let's take a look at the winners and losers this week on a busy Saturday.
winners
Our Lady: Whenever Notre Dame has the opportunity to be challenged, it passes. Sometimes it's not always good (see: Pitt, 10/13/18), but he was certainly beaten 36-3 in front of Syracuse in Yankee Stadium. The defense of the Irish fighters is what we thought we were, but you have to hand it to the offensive staff to manage a revolving door a little quarterback at different times of the season (for health and performance). Notre Dame averaged 6.25 yards per game on Saturday and, despite some red zone problems, had an outstanding day. #TeamChaos enthusiasts are eagerly awaiting Notre Dame's trip to the USC next week. However, unless serious spanking is formed, the Irish should get away with it.
The Big Ten East: Ohio State could be the worst team in the country. The Buckeyes, even at home, where they dominated Michigan, may not be good enough this time to win a Wolverines victory next week. Still, the game has something to offer. It presents timeless rivals that will surely appear in the top 10 with the title of the East Division on the line. Unless Ohio State plays better, you can not ask for much more here.
UCF: The Cincinnati defense was an elite coming into Saturday's game and that could have been a big problem for UCF. However, dear reader, this was not the case. Knights have something that no workout can prepare: speed. When you have speed, you have recipients who can get late coverage. And when you have a quarterback like McKenzie Milton who can give dimes to those receivers, no defense can prevent that. And that's what you got with the 38-13 victory of UCF. It was not even close. And credit for the defensive front of the Knights, who had been on the field for a long time – over 37 minutes – and still held his own. Is UCF a qualifying team? They are at least in conversation for the first two. This is an improvement over last year.
The Citadel: Look, the citadel was not going to beat Alabama, okay? Not even if she was tied with the No. 1 team of the nation 10-10 at the half (Alabama easily won 50-17). But there is something fun in the fact that an over-matched team puts his gun against a juggernaut. Playing the triple option and perfecting a #gamecontrol of quality is the only way the Citadel would have had the chance to snowball against Crimson Tide. But if you play the king, have fun at least. Focus on social media while the times were good? Well, it's just a bonus. Bulldogs, and let no one stop you.
losers
West Virginia: The Mountaineers are still in the hunt for the Big 12 Championship Championship. They could beat Oklahoma next week and be well. Let Oklahoma State come from behind in a Loss 45-41 must not derail anything … however … it was a Saturday punch. Along with the defeat of West Virginia, Texas went 24-10 against Iowa State, which, if the Mountaineers had been victorious, would have locked them in the Big 12 title with a week to spare. . Can West Virginia recover from an emotional loss for Oklahoma? Of course, but he has not beaten the Sooners since coming to Big 12.
USC: For Clay Helton, things are getting worse. A 34-27 loss to UCLA drops the Trojans to 5-6, while Notre Dame looms next week. A loss, of course, would take the USC out of bowl eligibility just one season after it went to the Cotton Bowl. And with this in mind, some context is needed to discuss Helton's hotspot. USC was not mean under Helton – far from there. Most programs would kill for Cotton Bowls and Rose Bowls. But it's also impossible to ignore the speed with which things have unfolded and the tangible proof is that the Trojans have made a 0-cons resounding against California schools in the Pac-12. It will not sit well with the locals.
Tennessee: The Flights were badly taken for a sort of revenge tour "Twilight Zone" for former coaches. First, Butch Jones, an offensive analyst from Alabama, had the cigar after Alabama 's victory in Knoxville in October. On Saturday, Missouri scored 50 points in Tennessee. The offensive coordinator of the Tigers? The former coach of Derek Dooley Flights, of course.
Mike MacIntyre, Colorado coach: Colorado's loss to Utah (30-7) – its sixth in a row – aggravates MacIntyre's clearly tense relationship with the program, both administratively and from a fan's point of view. The university has basically issued a non-commentary in the light of rumors about MacIntyre's future and those present in the bleachers have enough. The moment probably did not come for MacIntyre to remove the card "I could have left for three good places". Not when you are about to lose your fifth season lost in six years. Yes, Colorado is in a better place than when MacIntyre arrived, but settle in.
Best of the rest
Pitt: The Panthers won the Coastal ACC with a 34-13 win at Wake Forest, setting up a conference championship match against Clemson. Can Pitt once again live up to his reputation of being one of the best critics of college football? We will see, but in the meantime, hat to the team of Pat Narduzzi for having defeated a difficult start to the season by winning five of their last six.
Kansas running back Pooka Williams: It is difficult to continue to defend Oklahoma 's defense because, in the 12th week, it is what is bad. The Sooners win despite this. Instead, let's focus on Williams looking for 252 yards and two goals at 16.8 yards per game in a 55-40 loss. That's, literally, historically good. And bad defense or not, it is difficult to stop:
Wisconsin running back Jonathan Taylor: The sophomore scored a career high of 321 yards and three touchdowns in a 47-44 triple overtime win over Purdue. The Wisconsin season has been a disappointment given his high pre-season hopes, but it's sometimes nice to remember that Taylor continues to hit when he has the pebble in his hand.
Michigan State, Nebraska and the concept of a higher power: Sometimes things that seem like a coincidence do not feel like they are. Yes, the state of Nebraska-Michigan ended in a 9-6 battle because the November Big Ten is a jumble of players and coaches who seem to prefer to stay indoors. But there was something fortuitous in the 15 points of the game, marked by shots on goal when it was the first time the two teams had met since the passage of their respective kickers, Mike Sadler and Sam Foltz.
South Florida: Do you remember that time when the Bulls were unbeaten and ranked in the top 25? Good time. USF has since lost four games in a row and is pleased to play UCF to finish the season. The advanced analysis has never really liked this team and the results are catching up with it.
Ole Miss wide catcher DaMarkus Lodge: Yes, I'll take "Absurd one-handed catch in college football" for 1,000, Alex.
This ref: Utah-Colorado was played in the snow – or, as people sitting inside would say, "the time it makes to the ball". Although this is a rough interpretation of the phrase, it can still be fun to do things in the snow. Except that this official did not want to have anything to do with snowballs. Not at all.
Quarterback Rutgers Artur Sitkowski: The Scarlet Knights do not need me to say that things are going badly, and God knows that Sitkowski is not the only one responsible for their 1-10 record. But it is perhaps the most breathtaking interception I've seen in all my days.
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