The week 9 watch
You think college football has a lot of drama swirling around but just wait until this weekend introduces unforeseen chaos...
Things are cooling down a little with the weather this week in college football. This is usually when chaos strikes.
Unfortunately in a preview, it’s hard to anticipate college football chaos. There are always obvious trap games (this team had a bye week to prepare, this one has a big game next week, this one was fed info on signs about a national competitor to the opponent) but a lot of the awesome chaos in college football just relates to “these 18-22 year olds showed up to play this week and those didn’t.”
Or even, “a bunch of breaks went this team’s way and the other team was too exhausted or bewildered to react properly.”
This happens much less in pro sports, obviously. You don’t get the big momentum swings in quite the same fashion because teams make quick adjustments, the talent disparities are usually less, and you have fully developed prefrontal cortexes in a critical mass of the athletes involved.
Anyways, here’s a bunch of Week 9 games that stand out to me.
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