Notre Dame-Navy! Penn State-Wisconsin! Boise-UNLV! What you need to know about all the surprisingly big games.
With Nic Scourton leading the way, Texas A&M's defense will look to rattle LSU and quarterback Garrett Nussmeier.
We'll also see how well A&M's pass defense can frustrate Nussmeier. In LSU's biggest win, against Ole Miss, Nussmeier completed only 43% of his passes but at 15.3 yards per completion with no sacks or interceptions.
, we've got a four-team Big Ten race with three favorites and a delightful dark horse . But Week 9 offers Illinois a chance to charge into the picture and provides potential sinkholes for both the Nittany Lions and Hoosiers. Three weeks ago, Wisconsin was 2-2 and 66th in SP+. Now the Badgers are 5-2 and 20th, having beaten Purdue, Rutgers and Northwestern by a combined 117-16. Quarterbackand is averaging 139 yards per game at 6.3 per carry in this stretch, while the Badgers defense has treated three bad offenses like high school offenses, allowing just 0.4 points per possession and 4.1 yards per play.
If the Rebels can't rein in Jeanty, it's possible that nothing else matters. But if they can, then one should note that UNLV's offense has only gotten better since replacingThe Notre Dame-Navy rivalry is a reasonably common type in college football, in which one storied program dominates but we remember the other program's wins a lot more.
Two weeks into 2024, Colorado and Cincinnati were each 1-1 and ranked 79th and 68th in SP+, respectively. Six weeks later, they're both 5-2 and ranked 40th and 41st. Colorado is learning that boring can be good: Veterans of close, dramatic games, the Buffaloes' last two wins were by a combined 82-28. Meanwhile, Cincinnati is learning to love a good slog.
The MAC is delightfully wide open, with seven teams at either 3-0 or 2-1 in conference play and eight with at least a 5% title chance, per SP+. After last week's win over Northern Illinois, Toledo is the clear favorite ... for now. Bowling Green has beaten the Rockets as a pretty significant underdog twice in the last five years. These teams have two of the conference's better defenses, but Toledo's A-game is the best in the conference when it appears.
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