With playoff and conference title implications aplenty, Bill Connelly takes a peek at the week ahead.
Noah Thomas and Texas A&M can bounce back from a loss to Auburn with a high-stakes rivalry game against Texas.
Obviously some games are huge no matter what. The Egg Bowl will always be an irrepressible ball of anger and anxiety even though Mississippi State is 2-9 and Ole Miss' playoff hopes just suffered a nearly mortal blow. Florida vs. Florida State will still feel important even though Florida just clinched bowl eligibility and FSU is incredibly 2-9. Michigan vs.
Obviously the Aggies will need to rebound after a frustrating loss to Auburn on the Plains, but it's fair to assume they'll be able to move past that and focus on the matter at hand. This is a flawed but physical team -- basically a more well-rounded version of the Kentucky team that frustrated Texas on Saturday but didn't have enough offensive firepower to take advantage. The first Horns-Aggies game in 13 years is going to be an absolute brawl.
The non-Oregon pecking order is clear: If Ohio State beats Michigan and/or Penn State falls to a flagging Maryland, the Buckeyes are in. If Ohio State falls and Penn State wins, the Nittany Lions are in. And if both teams somehow lose and Indiana beats an atrocious Purdue, the Hoosiers somehow sneak in. But it's clear what the odds favor.
After everything Kansas has done in a perfect November, the Jayhawks, once 2-6, now have to go to Waco to face the Big 12'sHere are the five results that were furthest away from their respective SP+ projections. Call them either surprises or bad projections, I guess.and the Bama offense, force some turnovers, ugly the game up and give itself a fighting chance at an upset. But I never saw"OU rushes for 260 yards, allows 234Georgia State 52, Texas State 44 .
I in no way struggled with this week's No. 1 ranking, however. Kansas' offense torched a vastly improved Colorado defense, and the main tactic of choice was"Give the ball to Devin Neal and get out of the way." This is Neal's third straight season with at least 1,200 yards from scrimmage -- he's an all-time KU great at this point -- but Saturday was his absolute masterpiece., Texas Tech .
This hasn't been a particularly fun season for OSU, which has had to watch rival Oregon thrive in its new conference while suffering an injury-plagued five-game losing streak to fall to 4-6. But they won the de facto Pac-12 championship by surviving the win probability roller coaster of the week and getting a 55-yard field goal from
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