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September is always a dizzying college football experience. After the world’s longest offseason, we are desperate to overreact to everything we see. We careen from wild finish to wild finish and from breathless Saturday to breathless Saturday. And then, as the calendar flips to October, we realize not a lot has changed in terms of the big picture.
The final Saturday of September gave us another round of thrills and once again made it really hard for me to contain my My 10 Favorite Games list at the bottom of this column. Georgia pulled off its greatest comeback in school history in the biggest game of the week, only to lose anyway. Miami “lost” via a last-second Hail Mary but won anyway. Oklahoma rose from the dead. Long field goals and awful field goals decided countless games.
And yet, as we head into October, we see that the top nine teams in the preseason AP poll are a combined 36-4, with two of four losses coming to other top-nine teams. Ohio State is an even bigger Big Ten favorite than it was a month ago. Bama and Georgia are both still likely to make the College Football Playoff.
Yes, actually! You just have to know where to look. Here are some of 2024’s most interesting plot twists.
The 10 teams with the largest regression in SP+ ratings since the preseason:
1. Florida State -13.3 adjusted points per game (ranking fell from 12th to 48th)
2. UCLA -12.6 (from 37th to 84th)
3. UTSA – – -46…6…
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