Did we just watch the greatest college football weekend ever?
10/06/2024
By Chris Marler
What. Just. Happened?
I brought this up earlier this week in my weekly Winning & Boozing article on the site, but every time it seems like we are in for a “down” weekend or a “bad slate” of games, we get the most unexpected weekend imaginable. Saturday was no different.
Here’s a look at some of the things that happened in week six:
Seven total Top 25 teams lost
Five of the top 11 teams in the country lost
Four top 11 teams lost to unranked teams
Two top five SEC teams lost to unranked teams for the first time in conference history
No. 1 Alabama lost to Vanderbilt
Oh, and out on the west coast? We bookended the day with a kid winning $100,000 by hitting a 43-yard field goal at breakfast, and then watched Miami come back from down 38-10 to win for a night cap.
What a damn day!
People love to talk about 2007 as the greatest season in the history of college football. That was a season where we watched the first two-loss national champions be crowned since (insert fake claimed Alabama national title here), and we also watched the No. 2 team in the country lose nine consecutive weeks.
I don’t know if this is 2007 Part Two. I do know that this is the sixth week of the season, and it’s the sixth straight week, at least in the SEC, where we’ve seen a lopsided favorite lose outright to an underdog. I do know it’s the first time since 1984 that Vanderbilt beat Alabama. And, I do know that this is also the first year of a twelve team playoff.
So, again, I don’t know if this is 2007 part two because through six weeks of the season, it may be even better.
