The Royals’ tailspin couldn’t have come at a worse time, and now Kansas City finds itself in a very tight spot. After a seven-game skid that only ended on Tuesday, Kansas City is now tied for the fifth playoff spot in the American League with Detroit.
Call it the Dan Mullen Bowl, call it the battle of the SEC dumpster fires, call it Billy Napier’s last chance to turn this around. Whatever you want to call it, it’s a mess of an early game between two teams that were just a mess last week and need something to save their seasons.
What do Clemson and N.C. State have in common? Both got absolutely embarrassed by SEC opponents, ruining any chance for the ACC to grab some legitimacy this season.
Can this Illinois squad execute better than it did against Central Michigan? The Fighting Illini were clearly the better team on Saturday, but they made the job much tougher than necessary by committing far too many penalties. Against Nebraska, that isn’t going to work.
Texas showed it was back last season. Now the Longhorns have to prove that they’re here to stay. There aren’t many better ways to do that than beating the defending national champion on its home turf, and Texas has the pieces needed to do exactly that.
Losing to Nebraska, on its own, is no shame. But it’s how Colorado lost. The Buffaloes were never in the game. And Deion is now 2-9 in his past 11 games at Colorado after losing to a team the Buffaloes beat by 22 last year.
Texas showed it was back last season. Now the Longhorns have to prove that they’re here to stay. There aren’t many better ways to do that than beating the defending national champion on its home turf, and Texas has the pieces needed to do exactly that.
The same Nebraska front seven that shoved the Buffaloes around last year is mostly back and a year better. This Husker team is equipped to win in the trenches and isn’t likely to shoot itself in the foot. This year, there’s a good chance that’s good enough for Nebraska to win.
Over the past 10 meetings, FSU is 9-1, but five of those wins were decided by one score. If the Seminoles haven’t fixed what went wrong in Ireland, this will prove tougher than expected again.