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College football has a way of being cruel and rewarding all at once—breaking your heart one minute and making it jump out of your chest the next. 

All of the emotions that make college football special were on display in the monster showdown between No. 6 Oregon and third-ranked Penn State. We were all witnesses to two titans of the sport, going blow for blow for sixty minutes and then some. 

The game treated us to a little bit of everything: physically dominant offensive and defensive lines, feats of athletic prowess between the tackles and on the edge, smart play-calling, topsy-turvy quarterback play, and a finish so jarring it silenced 106,000 screaming Nittany Lion fans. 

In the second half, Penn State erased a two-score deficit to force overtime. In extras, the Nittany Lions scored first before Oregon answered. The Ducks scored again, but quarterback Dante Moore threw an interception on the two-point attempt, giving the visitors a nervy six-point lead.

Penn State took the ball next, with a chance to silence the doubters and avenge so many deep-rooted big game woes. What came next was both preposterous and plausible and felt like a re-run of a movie we’ve seen so many times. 

With a chance to win it, quarterback Drew Allar dropped back, took aim down the sideline, underthrew the ball, and saw an Oregon defensive back come down with the game-sealing interception to wrap up the 30-24 2OT victory. Both Allar and the offense came up short once again, a damning indictment on the James Franklin era in Happy Valley.

With the win, Oregon emerges as the class of the Big Ten, while Penn State is forced to do some late-game soul-searching after an otherwise incredible effort. 

Last season’s meeting between Alabama and Georgia produced serious fireworks and was certainly in the running for Game of the Year status.

On Saturday, these two SEC superpowers tangoed once again in yet another rendition that kept fans and pundits alike on the edge of their seats. The 17th-ranked Crimson Tide jumped out to a formidable lead and leaned on its defense in the second half to outlast fifth-ranked Georgia 24-21, snapping the Bulldogs’ 33-game home winning streak. 

Alabama quarterback Ty Simpson was the difference in this game. Simpson was poised, confident, and made big throw after big throw, shouldering the offense for 276 yards and two touchdowns. Georgia did a nice job of playing ground and pound football, but mustered just seven second-half points in the loss.

With the win, Alabama keeps itself afloat in the SEC and College Football Playoff race, and just might be rounding into that lofty form we expected in the preseason. Georgia and head coach Kirby Smart are left to grapple with their woeful recent record against Alabama.   

Ole Miss head coach Lane Kiffin opted to ride the hot hand in quarterback Trinidad Chambliss, and it paid off in a big way. 

Behind a bruising rushing attack and stellar defensive performance, Chambliss sliced and diced the LSU secondary for 314 yards and a touchdown, propelling 13th-ranked Ole Miss to a 24-19 win over the fourth-ranked Tigers. Don’t look now, but I don’t think it’s nuts to think Chambliss could be a sneaky, dark-horse Heisman candidate. 

Ole Miss suddenly looks like the real deal in the SEC. The defense is finding ways to get stops. The run game is churning. And Chambliss has got the juice, simple as that. 

LSU once again turned in a bad offensive performance. Quarterback Garrett Nussmeier forced numerous balls in tight coverage on Saturday. The run game mustered just 57 yards on 22 carries. LSU’s secondary even got worked like a punching bag. 

Lane Kiffin is the Troll King, but he’s now notched monster SEC victories in back-to-back seasons and has his team flirting with SEC top dog status. LSU head coach Brian Kelly is now left to pass the blame around to anyone but himself.

The Atlantic Coast Conference has been anything but ordinary this season. High-profile programs like Clemson and UNC have flopped. Miami has looked like the belle of the ball. And on any given weekend, Florida State and Georgia Tech have looked like formidable title challengers.

On Friday night, however, things got a little wonky with upstart Virginia stunning Florida State 46-38 in a 2OT thriller that was every bit Game of the Year material. The UVA student section stormed the field in epic fashion. The Hoos ran for over 200 yards and four touchdowns on the ground. Head coach Tony Elliott even notched his first signature victory in the school’s sixth all-time victory over a Top 10 opponent.

On Saturday afternoon, through 52 minutes of football, it looked like Wake Forest was ready to topple 16th-ranked Georgia Tech. The Demon Deacons jumped out to a 17-point lead and appeared poised for the upset. And then Haynes King took over. 

King engineered scoring drives of 13, 10, and nine plays, with the final drive leading to a game-tying field goal at the end of regulation. The Yellow Jackets opened the overtime period with a quick score. The Demon Deacons answered swiftly, and instead of kicking the game-tying PAT, opted to go for two and failed. 

Tech remains in the hunt for the ACC title, while UVA looks like a much-improved football team in Year 4 under Tony Elliott. 

A week after getting pasted by Indiana in primetime, it was fair to ask questions about what version of Illinois we’d get today.

The Fighting Illini answered the bell and then some, overcoming a pair of critical goal-line fumbles to walk it off with a 41-yard game-winning field goal to defeat No. 21 USC 34-32. 

Illinois bullied USC in the run game, racking up 171 yards on 35 carries. Big kudos to the Fighting Illini offensive line, who looked every bit like the veteran-laden group with a point to prove. Quarterback Luke Altmyer was also excellent, accounting for three touchdowns on the day.

USC deserves a modicum of credit for staying in the fight. The Trojans were in a two-score hole for what felt like most of the day, but hung around long enough to almost steal the win. The USC defense needs work (especially in the run game), but man, oh man, is the Jayden Maiava-Makai Lemon connection fun to watch. The pair connected for 11 completions, 151 yards, and two big-time touchdowns.

USC needs to improve its rush defense if it hopes to compete down the stretch of the Big Ten season. Illinois pulled itself off the mat and still has a lot of football in front of it. 

News flash: Tennessee is one wildly entertaining football team.

When the 15th-ranked Vols weren’t ripping huge plays, it was allowing them at the other end. In one of the best games of the day, the Tennessee defense came up with a clutch pass breakup in overtime to outlast a frisky Mississippi State team 41-34. 

The Vols desperately needed a win to keep pace in the SEC. For MSU, this ending stinks, but you have to feel good about the progress you’ve made under head coach Jeff Lebby.

A week after obliterating Illinois in primetime, perhaps it was to be expected for the Hoosiers to take their foot off the gas. But for much of the day against Iowa, Indiana couldn’t find the gas, with the Hoosiers putting up just 13 points through three and a half quarters. 

With the game hanging in the balance, the Hoosiers went back to their bread and butter in the Fernando Mendoza-Elijah Surrat connection, with Surrat hauling in a pass and streaking past an Iowa defender for the go-ahead 49-yard score with a minute and change remaining in the fourth quarter.

Survive and advance is the name of the game. Indiana won its clunker and lives to fight another day.

In what was supposed to be a plucky, potential upset spot for Arkansas quickly turned into a horror show for Hogs fans. 

Notre Dame ran around, over, and through the Arkansas defense with relative ease, pummeling the Hogs for 400 yards and 42 first-half points en route to a 56-13 dismantling. 

On Sunday, Arkansas dismissed head coach Sam Pittman, signaling the unacceptable nature of that sort of loss. Bobby Petrino will lead the charge the rest of this season, and who knows beyond that.

Don’t look now, but a once promising (and dominant!) Liberty program finds itself at 1-4 and 0-3 in conference play after a 21-7 loss to Old Dominion. 

A few years ago, head coach Jamey Chadwell was one of the more intriguing names on the market. Now, he just might be on the verge of an untimely exit from, of all places, Liberty. What a bizarre situation.  

After a crazy overtime win for the Oregon Ducks in Beaver Stadium, we react live to the Whiteout experience from an undisclosed audio bunker. Plus, a quick run through some of our snap judgments from some of the other big action of the day.

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