Biggest CFB disappointments/surprises thus far

[NDgreatestofalltime!]

Curious what everyone thinks on this topic.

Disappointments:

You’d have to start with FSU right, preseason top 10 (1-7). Okie St (3-5), Kansas (2-6) though I never bought their top 25 ranking to start the season. Probably throw in USC for sure, and Michigan.

Surprises:

I’ll start with Indiana, schedule is weak but what a turn around year one. Also, both Army and Navy, no one had them both with a chance to win 11 or more regular season games, and they’ve been dominant doing it (minus today for Navy). I’ll throw BYU in there too as many had them in the bottom half of the B12 rankings preseason.

 

[FightingIrish44]

SMU perhaps. First year in the ACC though they were 11-3 last year. Pittsburgh is undefeated.

 

[NDgreatestofalltime!]

SMU perhaps. First year in the ACC though they were 11-3 last year. Pittsburgh is undefeated.

I forgot about Pitt

 

[theskibro]

Curious what everyone thinks on this topic.

Disappointments:

You’d have to start with FSU right, preseason top 10 (1-7). Okie St (3-5), Kansas (2-6) though I never bought their top 25 ranking to start the season. Probably throw in USC for sure, and Michigan.

Surprises:

I’ll start with Indiana, schedule is weak but what a turn around year one. Also, both Army and Navy, no one had them both with a chance to win 11 or more regular season games, and they’ve been dominant doing it (minus today for Navy). I’ll throw BYU in there too as many had them in the bottom half of the B12 rankings preseason.

You nailed it. How about most paper tiger teams? That would be Ped state

 

[sjb75]

You nailed it. How about most paper tiger teams? That would be Ped state

I watched Penn State win at USC. Their best win. A solid team in the 5-8 range.

 

[NDgreatestofalltime!]

You nailed it. How about most paper tiger teams? That would be Ped state

PSU just doesn’t do it for me, I see a fair amount of them here where I live. They outclass virtually all of their opponents but seem like they’re always going through the motions. Lots of games that seem to competitive late.

They have a lot of very good skill players but offense seems hot/cold. It could just be Franklin, never been a fan.

 

[Chitown11]

You nailed it. How about most paper tiger teams? That would be Ped state

We will find out next week when they play the Bucktards

 

[Chitown11]

Biggest surprise is IU on the positive and FL St on the negative

 

[BGI User 756]

Curious what everyone thinks on this topic.

Disappointments:

You’d have to start with FSU right, preseason top 10 (1-7). Okie St (3-5), Kansas (2-6) though I never bought their top 25 ranking to start the season. Probably throw in USC for sure, and Michigan.

Surprises:

I’ll start with Indiana, schedule is weak but what a turn around year one. Also, both Army and Navy, no one had them both with a chance to win 11 or more regular season games, and they’ve been dominant doing it (minus today for Navy). I’ll throw BYU in there too as many had them in the bottom half of the B12 rankings preseason.

Indy growing on me after last 2 games

 

[BGI User 756]

I watched Penn State win at USC. Their best win. A solid team in the 5-8 range.

They should send a thank you to Lincoln

 

[theskibro]

I watched Penn State win at USC. Their best win. A solid team in the 5-8 range.

Ped was lucky to beat usc. Spoiled children gave it away. Ped state always is rated high n ways loses to good competition. They will not beat bucknuts.

 

[Chitown11]

Ped was lucky to beat usc. Spoiled children gave it away. Ped state always is rated high n ways loses to good competition. They will not beat bucknuts.

If the bucktards played the way they did yesterday they have a very good shot at beating them

 

[christophero]

FSU, USC, Oklahoma, Washington off the top of my head.

 

[BGI User 1596]

FSU, USC, Oklahoma, Washington off the top of my head.

NIU at 4 - 4

 

[NDinNJ]

Biggest surprise is IU on the positive and FL St on the negative

Don't forget about NIU, we were told they were really good team after week 2, and they've disappointed since.

 

[banmate6]

USC and MI for me. I didn't think either would underperform this much. To a lesser degree, Alabama, even considering Saban left and gave it to DeBoer...but they sure don't look like typical Saban teams.

I also get a feeling Ohio State is at a crossroads. Either they're elite or not. The surprise for me is that the verdict is in the air, as I thought they'd easily be top 4.

 

[sjb75]

Don't forget about NIU, we were told they were really good team after week 2, and they've disappointed since.

Golson again said today NIU is a good MAC team.

 

[88ND]

Curious what everyone thinks on this topic.

Disappointments:

You’d have to start with FSU right, preseason top 10 (1-7). Okie St (3-5), Kansas (2-6) though I never bought their top 25 ranking to start the season. Probably throw in USC for sure, and Michigan.

Surprises:

I’ll start with Indiana, schedule is weak but what a turn around year one. Also, both Army and Navy, no one had them both with a chance to win 11 or more regular season games, and they’ve been dominant doing it (minus today for Navy). I’ll throw BYU in there too as many had them in the bottom half of the B12 rankings preseason.

It begins and ends with three things...

Pitt... undefeated and the way the game is played today if you have a QB that is playing well you can steal some victories. Miami as example...
and....
Pitt has hit a homerun with the Holstein cat... He's just a baby as a FR ...

Truly amazing how Pitt got him. Good for them!!!

#2 is the ARMY QB. Bryson Daily

He is an absolute nightmare and nobody wants to defend him. If you think RL can run watch the Army QB.

#3 BYU
Just finding ways to win.


After that not much...
The polls still favor the what you done for me as of late teams and still love ranking them on perception and reputation...

Boise State needs to be ranked higher!!!!
Exact same result @ Oregon as Ohio State had. BSU beating everyone soundly sans this past week against a one loss UNLV team.
Which seems more impressive than the near miss OSU had against a Nebraska team this same very weak
OSU is one of the trendy darlings though and Boise is not...so the absurd poll rankings continue.

 

[tkirish]

Disappointment ? FSU. Pretty hard to imagine they’d be this bad.

Surprise ? Indiana. They look like the real deal.

Other disappointments and surprises. Michigan is so so. Personally, ND offense has been a letdown. I thought RL would be much better.

Watch out for Pitt. Kind of a sleeper and nobody seems to be paying attention to them.

 

[stu4don]

Disappointment ? FSU. Pretty hard to imagine they’d be this bad.

Surprise ? Indiana. They look like the real deal.

Other disappointments and surprises. Michigan is so so. Personally, ND offense has been a letdown. I thought RL would be much better.

Watch out for Pitt. Kind of a sleeper and nobody seems to be paying attention to them.

Pitt got crushed. Out.

Leonard hadn't played football in nearly a year, didn't practice this spring or summer, the last two weeks we were starting to see the Riley Leonard the NFL was so hot on in his Sophomore season. Gutty kid who has the will to win. He could make things interesting for this depleted Irish team.

Just beat FSU!

 

[Telx1]

Pitt got crushed. Out.

Leonard hadn't played football in nearly a year, didn't practice this spring or summer, the last two weeks we were starting to see the Riley Leonard the NFL was so hot on in his Sophomore season. Gutty kid who has the will to win. He could make things interesting for this depleted Irish team.

Just beat FSU!

Yes, one game at a time with this team. I don’t take any game for granted after the pathetic team wide performance against NIU. Fl St has talent and they appear to have quit on their coach, but playing a top ten ND might bring out their best collective effort. We absolutely can win out if we play to our abilities, but that is yet to be determined.