The Big 10 is likely going to try explain that there’s a difference between the “game clock” and the time displayed in the stadium. HOWEVER, that argument gets thrown out once the officials had the game clock operator reset the game clock to 9 seconds. Meaning the “game clock” and the time displayed in the stadium were synchronized before the final play. When the clock hit 0 the game was over.

I miss the days of growing up, watching the games and knew that if you lost one time, your season was in jeopardy. It created urgency, passion, and overall a better product. Now, after losing last night, I realized that’s all gone.

Ohio State can lose one more game and still have a shot at the playoff. I hate that. I miss the unpredictability of college football.

Unfortunately those days are gone. The NCAA is now making it even easier for teams with 3 losses to get in. What’s the point of the regular season at that point? What’s the point of non conference games? There’s a lot of change in the CFB world that has made the CFB regular season pointless.

Maybe it’s just me, but the NCAA does not need to expand past 12. Frankly I think 8 was the right number. But going to 24 is blasphemous.

Auburn originally set the record in 2015, falling 12 spots after beating FCS Jacksonville State in OT. They moved down 12 spots in the rankings from 6 to 18.

I'm claiming that as a win and if the NCAA says I have to take it down, I'm suing them into oblivion.

You know they would back down, because they are impotent.

Unranked one-loss power conference teams and their lone loss

Big Ten

Nebraska: Home loss to No. 5 Indiana, 20-17

Wisconsin: Neutral site loss against No. 2 Notre Dame 41-13

Big 12

Arizona: Loss at No. 8 BYU, 28-17

Baylor: Neutral site loss against Auburn 17-16

Cincinnati: Lost at Arizona 34-7

ACC

Duke: Lost at Georgia Tech, 28-25

Pittsburgh: Home loss to North Carolina 21-17

We toggle from saying the power-4 or power-2 conferences. But it seems like most of the power still remains in the SEC even though it has not won a national title in the previous three seasons.

Not only are all of the SEC’s one-loss teams in the AP top 16, but the only two-loss team in the poll is LSU. Meanwhile, its so-called contemporary — the Big Ten — has two unranked one-loss teams in Nebraska and Wisconsin.

People will say it works itself out in the final poll, but this is still a helpful reflection of how the SEC is viewed compared to the rest. Ole Miss has the second-worst loss of any top-25 team and is still 9th. Tennessee moved up to 14th after a one-TD win vs Arkansas and has nothing on its resume. The Vols are Nebraska but ranked highly.

Furthermore, a higher AP ranking gives teams more publicity and better slots on the broadcast schedule. This matters when final bubble teams are selected by smallest of margins.

One-loss teams per conference

SEC: Alabama (6th), Texas (7th), Ole Miss (9th), Missouri (13th), Tennessee (14th), Kentucky (15th), Mississippi State (16th)

Big Ten: Ohio State (4th), Iowa (17th), USC (19th), Northwestern (25th), Wisconsin (unranked), Nebraska (unranked)

Big 12: Oklahoma State (18th), Houston (20th), Arizona (unranked), Cincinnati (unranked), Baylor (unranked)

ACC: Wake Forest (21st), SMU (24th), Duke (unranked), Pittsburgh (unranked)

This was going to be a historic night for their university and community. This would be played on highlight reels, recruiting pitches, donor revitalizations. Undoubtedly the greatest win in their history, spanning over 120 years.

Players would have remembered this for the rest of their lives, discussing it at reunions 30, 40, 50 years from now.

All gone.

G6 teams struggle enough as it is, we cannot continue to suck the life out of this sport. This is just sickening in so many layers.