Plus, Cam Ward has Miami humming, Indiana is no longer the underdog and the troops march on as Army and Navy remain unbeaten.
Three years ago, when the Texas Longhorns announced they were going to join the SEC, everybody from the school’s hierarchy to the most casual fans would have imagined a weekend like this in Austin.
However, it was a controversial call/no call that will be best remembered. Facing third-and-10 at the Georgia 31-yard line, Beck dropped back and sailed a pass that Jahdae Barron appeared to pick off and nearly run back for a score. Defensive pass interference was called as boos rained down from a six-figure crowd. Following a subsequent replay on the stadium video boards that showed offensive pass interference, if anything, Texas fans proceeded to hurl bottles and other items onto the field.
It isn’t sustainable for a true national title contender to keep playing in one-score shootouts, but if you have Ward coming up clutch like he has, it might not matter until the calendar flips to December. With the Duke Blue Devils the lone remaining threat on a schedule that doesn’t have a ranked team left, the Canes making the ACC championship game unscathed is closer to reality than most would have guessed coming into the season.
Indiana, now 7–0, remains one of just two teams in the country which still hasn’t trailed in a game this season. The Hoosiers have yet to allow a point in the first quarter. They play hard, smart, win in all three phases and That’s not where anybody expected head coach Brent Venables to be midway through Year 3 in Norman, much less an administration that handed out a hefty contract extension a few months ago as a show of faith going into the SEC. Venables isn’t just putting a bad team out on the field, he’s doing so with a completely unwatchable product.
If there’s a modicum of solace for Oklahoma fans, it may be the fact that Venables’s predecessor might be in worse shape after Lincoln Riley’s USC Trojans led for 59 minutes in College Park but still walked away a 29–28 loser to the Maryland Terrapins. The senior injured his ankle on the Tigers’ opening drive and was driven down the street to get an MRI at a local hospital as play continued. He eventually warmed back up at the program’s indoor facility and made his way back onto the field just in time to engineer a remarkable 17-play, 95-yard go-ahead touchdown drive in the final minutes.
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