The question is always the same when it comes to Utah: is Cam Rising going to play? The oft-injured Utah quarterback has some suggestions that he’ll take the field, but there’s no guarantee.
It’s October, and there’s an excitement in the air in Bloomington, Indiana.
Nothing new for this place. October’s always a time for excitement in Indiana, because it means the start of basketball practice. Hoosier Hysteria is real, and the season is just a month away. Except there’s one difference: this excitement has absolutely nothing to do with basketball.
Will the real South Carolina please reveal itself? Are the Gamecocks the program that barely scraped by against Old Dominion, earning a four-point win on opening day of the season? Or are they the one that went into Lexington and belted Kentucky, introducing the Wildcats to a hard reality?
Do the Buckeyes have their minds where they need to be for this game? Ohio State has the talent to dominate Iowa, but the Buckeyes have a major problem on their hands: Oregon. The trip to Eugene to face the Ducks looms large next week, and Ohio State has to make sure that it’s not focused on that potential Big Ten title game preview.
Is anything going to stop the SMU march to the ACC title game? If it’s not Louisville, the answer might be a hard no. SMU’s schedule was always thought to be a difficult start to ACC life before giving the Mustangs a glide path to Charlotte if they could survive it.
Texas A&M hasn’t allowed more than 23 points since Notre Dame in Week 1, and the Aggies haven’t allowed more than 20 in any of their four wins. If the Aggies can get a lead while Missouri sleepwalks through the first half again, this might be the upset the Tigers have avoided to this point.
Two games into its first Big Ten campaign, and UCLA has to be wondering if this was really such a good idea. Leaving aside the travel nightmare of going out to central Pennsylvania and to New Jersey over a span of three weeks, UCLA just hasn’t been any good.
September is over, and historically, that’s been bad for Syracuse. September Syracuse has been a thorn in its opponents’ sides, which was why the Orange were regularly able to win five to seven games a season.
Have the Braves finally run out of duct tape and chicken wire? Atlanta has been holding it together as best as it can ever since Spencer Strider went down for the season. And while the Braves have held things together well, they’ve always been kind of fragile because of the lack of their top pitcher.