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For Miami fans, Saturday’s 26-20 overtime loss to SMU followed an all-too-familiar script. The Hurricanes secured an early lead, Carson Beck turned the ball over, and for the umpteenth time, a Mario Cristobal-led team found a way to shrink when the spotlight got bright. 

Mere hours before kickoff, Rhett Lashlee signed a monster new contract to extend his stay in Dallas. Perhaps that was a good omen for what unfolded on Saturday.

This was a strange game if you examine the box score. Miami outgained SMU by over 120 yards on the ground and limited SMU to just 23 rushing yards. But SMU quarterback Kevin Jennings threw them to victory, finishing with 365 yards and a touchdown on the day.

After knocking down a late-game field goal to force overtime, the Mustangs intercepted Miami quarterback Carson Beck on a badly underthrown pass, crushing any chance the Hurricanes had of winning the game. 

With the win, SMU moves to 4-1 in ACC play, giving itself a fighting chance to stay in the hunt to make the ACC Championship game. Miami, on the other hand, is likely on the outside looking in of the ACC title race and College Football Playoff picture.

Death, taxes, and Miami fans cancelling hotel reservations in Charlotte after another disappointing November loss. 

On last week’s pod, Ty and Dan were not-so-quietly wondering if Dave Doeren could be out at NC State. Last year was a disaster, and this year was trending toward another listless season. But on Saturday night, Doeren’s Wolfpack battered No. 8 Georgia Tech 48-36, sending the hard-hitting Yellow Jackets sliding down to No. 16 in the AP Top 25.

NC State quarterback CJ Bailey has all the promise in the world, and on Saturday night, he put his talents on full display. He had a fantastic game, torching Georgia Tech for 340 yards, two passing touchdowns, and another on the ground. The Wolfpack out-physicaled the Yellow Jackets at the point of attack, racking up a mind-boggling 243 yards and four touchdowns on the ground.

Haynes King and company have had a fantastic season up until this point, but the defense let ‘em down. With one loss in the ACC, things get a little funky moving forward for the ACC title race, both for Tech and the rest of the conference. I’m fully expecting we’ll see some wonky tiebreaker scenarios in the coming weeks.   

No. 20 Texas used a blistering hot start and big third quarter to pull past No. 9 Vanderbilt 34-31, throwing yet another wrench in the SEC and College Football Playoff race. 

Quarterback Arch Manning had perhaps his best game of the season against the Commodores, who just a week ago limited a good Missouri offense. Manning finished 25-of-33 for 328 yards and three touchdowns, including an opening play score to Ryan Wingo that set the tone for the entire game. 

It’s taken two-thirds of the season, but Manning has gotten better week to week. Is he All World Good like we thought? Not yet. But he is improving, looks way more comfortable in the pocket, and slowly but surely, he and the Longhorns are stringing together some important wins. Big games against Georgia and undefeated Texas A&M await. But for now, it’s been nice to see some progress from a team that had so much preseason hype. 

Where does Vanderbilt go from here? Clark Lea’s bunch will need to rally. The Commodores still have a monster game against Tennessee in a few weeks and little room for error if they hope to make the CFP. I’m sure Vanderbilt will be a hot topic of discussion when the first iteration of the CFP bracket is released on Tuesday.

No one would’ve blamed Florida for rolling over against rival Georgia. Billy Napier just got fired. The Gators entered the game 3-4 with little to play for. And throughout the game, injuries piled up. It would’ve been easy to throw in the towel.

But that’s the thing about a zombie team like the Gators. Just when you think they’re dead, they jump up and bite you.

Florida did its best to take a pound of flesh against No. 5 Georgia, but came up short in the 24-20 loss. Georgia looked sluggish for parts of this game and needed a nifty cutback run from Chauncey Bowens to take the lead down the stretch of the fourth quarter. 

Georgia is a good football team that did just enough to win in a tricky spot. No more, no less. “Survive and Advance” is the name of the game this time of year, and Kirby Smart’s bunch did just that. A big game against the suddenly thriving Texas Longhorns awaits.

When 2025 USC and Nebraska met on Saturday night, it felt like the unstoppable force versus the immovable object. USC, under Lincoln Riley, struggled to win Big Ten games outside the state of California. And Nebraska, under Matt Rhule, struggles to win big games of any kind. 

Something had to give under the floodlights of Memorial Stadium, and in the end, it was the Trojans who found a way to buck traditional wisdom, notching a 21-17 victory to move to 6-2 and 4-1 in conference play. 

This game was all about sterling running back play, with Nebraska’s Emmett Johnson and USC’s King Miller doing the heavy lifting for both offenses. Johnson has been fantastic all season and lit USC up for 165 yards and a touchdown on 29 carries. Miller was no slouch either, breaking off big run after big run, finishing with 129 yards and a score. 

Nebraska came out hot and looked comfortable through the early parts of the third quarter, until quarterback Dylan Raiola went out with an injury. With Raiola out, USC did a nice job of loading the box and speeding up freshman backup quarterback TJ Lateef. 

USC quarterback Jayden Maiava had a perplexing night through the air. He was flat-out bad in the first half, but as the game progressed, he connected on some key throws. He also added a running element to the game and finished with 62 yards and one touchdown.

Mere days after signing an extension to stay at Nebraska, Matt Rhule did not have his best game. He burned a few crucial timeouts in the third quarter and made some strange clock management decisions. And to make matters worse, the aforementioned Raiola injury was actually a broken fibula that will sideline him for the rest of the season. Ouch.

If you’re Lincoln Riley, it’s got to feel good to finally win a big game on the road. And if you’re Matt Rhule, you’ve got to be left wondering when you’ll finally notch a big win of your own while being the head man in Lincoln.

Other than the upset of Pitt in the Backyard Brawl in Week 3, it’s been a slow go for Rich Rodriguez and West Virginia. The Mountaineers have struggled to get stops and have played musical chairs at quarterback. 

But on Saturday, the Mountaineers put all that behind them, knocking off previously-once-beaten Houston by a 45-35 score, adding yet another wrinkle to the Big 12 title race. 

The Mountaineers started fast and finished strong, racking up 28 points in the first and fourth quarters alone. In traditional Rich Rod fashion, it was all about the run game. West Virginia battered and bruised the Cougars’ front seven, racking up 246 yards and four touchdowns on the ground. 

In the grand scheme of the season, this game doesn’t mean much for West Virginia. But it is proof that, in limited spurts, Rich Rod still has his fastball. For Houston, this is a setback, no doubt about it. Houston’s remaining slate includes games against UCF, TCU, and Baylor, all of which still feel winnable. 

In one of the day’s few ranked-on-ranked matchups, No. 18 Oklahoma stopped the bleeding of recent weeks and knocked off No. 14 Tennessee 33-27. 

This game had a bit of everything. A strong start from the Vols. A 9-0 second quarter from Oklahoma. Five total turnovers. And a second half that saw both teams score 17 apiece down the stretch. 

In the end, perhaps the biggest game-changing element of this game was Oklahoma suddenly finding a run game. The Sooners had been woeful at running the ball all season, but on Saturday the Sooners rushed for 192 yards and two crucial touchdowns. 

The result of this game muddies the SEC waters, especially when talking about the Meaty Middle of the conference. Can OU use this as a springboard to finish out the season strong? Is Brent Venables’ job safe? How will Tennessee hold up against Vandy at the end of the year? So many questions remain! 

In what’s becoming something of a Sunday tradition, Auburn ended weeks of speculation and officially pulled the plug on Hugh Freeze, who was in his third season with the Tigers. Freeze’s buyout is just north of $15 million, which oddly feels like small potatoes in our current coaching cycle. And, you might be surprised to hear that the list of potential candidates… is almost the exact same list of candidates for most of the SEC’s other openings.

Yeah, things are gonna get real weird down the stretch, which is exactly why Ty and Dan have been cooking up a little game to commemorate this year’s ride on the coaching carousel. We’ll have more on that later this week.

What a chaotic week in college football — and not just on the field. Between the YouTube TV–Disney dispute and a string of bizarre finishes, fans everywhere were forced to get creative to follow along. From Miami’s playoff hopes going up in smoke against SMU to Georgia Tech's road loss against NC State and Duke's shootout win over Clemson, we had drama, penalties, and questionable officiating in equal measure. Plus, Georgia barely escaped Florida, Texas nearly coughed one up to Vandy, and Oklahoma won in Knoxville over Tennessee.

Elsewhere, Texas Tech exploded in the second half against Kansas State, West Virginia capitalized on Houston’s fumble-fest, and Ohio State torched Penn State behind a nearly flawless Julian Sayin. Add in Indiana murdering Maryland, USC surviving Nebraska, and a bunch of quietly telling results across the Power Four, and it’s safe to say that College Football Week 10 lived up to the hype. We break it all down, plus play your Reverbs and close it out with the Dudes of the week.

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