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By: Chad Wilson – Editor – GridironStuds Blog<\/strong> With break-neck speed we accelerate through the college football season.\u00a0 Each week we learn a little more about things we were so sure about after week one of action.\u00a0 I told you all not to panic about Michigan and warned you all of the the height of the Tide in Tuscaloosa.\u00a0 We were ready to throw the Texas program in the trash in August but come late September,\u00a0 we are trying to wipe it clean of the spaghetti sauce and banana peels that may have landed on it.\u00a0 For every answer each college football Saturday gives us,\u00a0 it seems it to befuddle us with an equal amount of questions.\u00a0 Have we even had upset Saturday yet?\u00a0 Here’s what I saw in Week Four.<\/p>\n Getting Frosty in Lincoln<\/strong><\/p>\n There was no fan base more giddy about an offseason hire than Nebraska fans were about their son Scott Frost returning home to coach the Huskers.\u00a0 If you asked any of those do or die Husker fans if they thought they would be winless at this point in the season,\u00a0 they would have bet their Chevy truck and rifle against it.\u00a0 Time to get this dose of reality Nebraska fans and Jim Harbaugh served a rather tall cup of it in Ann Arbor on Saturday.\u00a0 This one was ugly from the word go and before the echo could wear off,\u00a0 Nebraska found itself on the butt end of a 39-0 halftime score.\u00a0 Nebraska was just a plain victim of the thuggery of Michigan’s defense. The Wolverines muffled whatever that was the Huskers called an offense holding them to just 132 yards on the day.\u00a0 It was quite the humbling experience and gave Husker faithful a harsh look into just what a rebuilding project Frost has on his hands.\u00a0 The only fortunate thing in this whole situation is the reputation for patience that Nebraska fans have but I’ll be damned if this conference beatdown didn’t do to patience what bluetooth and GPS does to a cell phone battery.<\/p>\n This Ain’t Your Pappy’s Wildcats<\/strong><\/p>\n Remember when Kentucky was a feared football program?\u00a0 Yea me neither and while fear may be a strong adjective for Kentucky right now,\u00a0 I do declare that folks are starting to pay attention.\u00a0 After obtaining their first win over Florida since everyone wore Reeboks,\u00a0 many had more chalked it up to Florida being a rebuilding project.\u00a0 Last week vs. Mississippi St.,\u00a0 the Wildcats rebuked us all with yet another eye opening hammer throw.\u00a0 Them there Wildcats invited the Bulldogs over and weren’t kind hosts.\u00a0 Kentucky continued to get it done on the ground and muscled up their SEC foe with 229 yards on the ground.\u00a0 Kentucky combined this mighty ground attack with forceful defense,\u00a0 limiting Mississippi St. to just 201 total yards.\u00a0 The battle on the line of scrimmage was won by Kentucky as was the War on the scoreboard.\u00a0 Coming into the game,\u00a0 the Bulldogs were averaging a 50 cent piece on everyone.\u00a0 In Lexington Saturday night they could only muster a rather unlucky seven.\u00a0 Don’t look now but the Wildcats are in first place in the SEC East. They’ll be hunting for another big win when the Gamecocks come to town this Saturday looking to avoid getting plucked up.<\/p>\n We Volunteered for This<\/strong><\/p>\n Yes in Knoxville they ran ole Butch out of town before sundown.\u00a0 When the athletic director tried to hire a new sheriff named Schiano,\u00a0 the hopeful shot him dead before he could reach the town hall.\u00a0 Well,\u00a0 what they got for all their trouble was a brand new head coach who’s brand new to being a head coach.\u00a0 I don’t have the stats on how often the no experience thing works at marquee programs like a Tennessee but I can tell you working is not a word to describe these Volunteers last Saturday Night.<\/p>\n Two of the last three meetings between Tennessee and Florida have provided endings that will be talked about by humans while they are living on Mars and other planets.\u00a0 Mars is where Tennessee fans wanted to be by 9 PM est. on Saturday.\u00a0 Florida came to play and had no interest in a last minute Hail Mary or any other ending off the pages of a Hollywood script.\u00a0 Forcing turnovers and converting them into cold hard points put Florida up by 23 points at the half.\u00a0 While Vol fans were drinking from their cups reminiscing on the 2016 2nd half comeback,\u00a0 the team dashed that thought real quick when the came out of the locker room and promptly turned the ball back over to Florida.\u00a0 There would be no come back as Florida’s front seven spotlighted the Tennessee offensive line woes.\u00a0 In the end,\u00a0 the sting and shame of a 47-21 loss could not be hidden from the whiskey induced turmoil written upon Volunteer fans’ faces.\u00a0 A whipping like this is best soothed with a beatdown of a lesser FCS foe the next week.\u00a0 Checking the schedule,\u00a0 some team in Athens, Georgia called the Bulldogs are waiting for them.\u00a0 What Conference do they play in again?<\/p>\n Ducks Can’t Stand Cardinals<\/strong><\/p>\n You ever got all dressed up for a party,\u00a0 looking your best,\u00a0 picked up your girl, riding high in your sporty vehicle and blew out a tire?\u00a0 That describes the mood in Eugene, Oregon on Saturday.\u00a0 A win is a win is a win until it isn’t and that’s what happened to Oregon.\u00a0 If you were a Duck fan going to a party Saturday Night and had to leave before the game was over,\u00a0 you were definitely floored by the final score.\u00a0 Oregon was in full and total control.\u00a0 They were in the 3rd quarter on their way into the endzone about to make it a 31-7 game when disaster struck.\u00a0 Yes,\u00a0 all you old fashioned arm chairs were mumbling something about “see that’s why you don’t go shotgun down by the goal line”\u00a0 when the errant snap bounced off the outstretched finger tips of Justin Herbert and into the hands of Stanford linebacker Joey Alfieri.\u00a0 But this is Oregon Ducks football folks.\u00a0 A shotgun snap is as required as the lines on the field.\u00a0 Nevertheless,\u00a0 this is where the dung started rolling downhill.\u00a0 Despite the voracious comeback by Stanford,\u00a0 Oregon still had a chance to salt the game away in the closing minute of regulation when a math problem preceded tragedy number two.\u00a0 Instead of taking a knee which would have all but wasted the clock for the Ducks leading 31-24, they inexplicably called I right 42 Baby Oil which resulted in a fumble that the nerds from Palo Alto gobbled up like points on a SAT exam.\u00a0 I think you guys know the rest.\u00a0 What will be interesting to see is what effect,\u00a0 if any,\u00a0 this has on the Ducks the rest of the season.\u00a0 A test of Mario Cristobal’s motivation skills are currently being loaded into the computer.<\/p>\n
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