You knew that with November would come chaos, and sure enough this weekend brought it in spades.\u00a0 Five unbeatens fell by the wayside (LSU, TCU, Michigan State, Memphis, and Toledo), leaving just six.\u00a0 At most, only four can make it undefeated through the season (Clemson, Ohio State\/Iowa, Oklahoma State\/Baylor, and Houston).\u00a0 Of those, Houston is the odd man out as the Group of Five team.\u00a0 Most think their schedule won\u2019t be enough to move them into the top four even with potential wins over Memphis, Navy, and Temple upcoming. There are still thirteen one-loss teams remaining, and ten are from Power Five conferences.\u00a0 With four weeks remaining, there\u2019s still no telling who might be the top four.<\/p>\n
Of the Power Five unbeaten teams, the one with the least publicity has to be Oklahoma State.\u00a0 The Cowboys had somewhat cruised through the easy part of their Big XII schedule before jumping onto the scene in a big way with a 49-29 win over TCU.\u00a0 They are seventh in the country in points per game (44.6), which puts them a \u201cpedestrian\u201d fifth in the Big XII.\u00a0 However, they are 46th<\/sup> in the country in defense (23.8), which doesn\u2019t sound like much until you realize that ranks them second overall in the Big XII behind Oklahoma, and unlike the Sooners, the Cowboys have already played one of the top four Big XII teams (the aforementioned TCU win).<\/p>\n Everyone seems to be quick to jump off the Leonard Fournette Heisman bandwagon.\u00a0 Yes, he had a tough night against Alabama\u2019s defense, gaining only 31 yards.\u00a0 But consider these two things before dropping the LSU Tiger running back from your personal Heisman ballot: 1) He still leads the nation in rushing by more than fifty yards, despite having at least one fewer game played than any other back in the top seven, and 2) despite the low totals against Alabama, he is still on track to break the all-time SEC record for rushing yards per game (currently held by Herschel Walker with 171.9), at 172.9.\u00a0 He\u2019s a really good player who had one tough game.\u00a0 Even Heisman winners sometimes take one on the chin.<\/p>\n In small-school news, if you can guess the remaining three undefeated FCS schools, you\u2019re a bigger college football fan than I.\u00a0 The answer: McNeese State, Harvard, and Dayton.\u00a0 The odd man out in the bunch is Dayton; the Flyers are 9-0, but have won four games by five points or less, and only one by more than seventeen.\u00a0 As a result, Dayton is currently unranked.\u00a0 However, as the FCS championship playoffs includes all conference champions that wish to participate, the Flyers can get in due to winning the Pioneer Football League, which they can do by winning one of their last two games.\u00a0 If they do, it will be their 12th<\/sup> conference championship.<\/p>\n Congratulations to verntroyer<\/strong>, who wins week 10 with 234 points.\u00a0 Tied for second were JustGuess<\/strong> and AUBrian<\/strong>, who each had 215 points.<\/p>\n Standings after 10 weeks (dropping two lowest weekly scores):<\/p>\n As we turn for the homestretch, this weekend\u2019s slate features rivalry games for bronze pigs (Minnesota \u2013 Iowa\u2019s Floyd of Rosedale trophy), wooden turtles (Ohio State \u2013 Illinois\u2019 Illibuck trophy), and golden boots (Arkansas \u2013 LSU\u2019s, well, Golden Boot trophy).\u00a0 For the first time in a while, however, it does not feature a weekday game.\u00a0 The first games are Saturday, November 14 @ Noon ET<\/strong>, so make sure to get your picks in by then!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You knew that with November would come chaos, and sure enough this weekend brought it in spades.\u00a0 Five unbeatens fell by the wayside (LSU, TCU, Michigan State, Memphis, and Toledo), leaving just six.\u00a0 At most, only four can make it undefeated through the season (Clemson, Ohio State\/Iowa, Oklahoma State\/Baylor, and Houston).\u00a0 Of those, Houston is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions\/308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n\n
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