Central Florida No. 1’s 49-21 win at Georgia Tech confirms the Knights’ prestige as a team to beat in Group Five and holds the hopes of the show’s disadvantaged despite school football playoffs, which took a hit this week with Big Ten’s decision to play again in October.
First, the good news: UCF’s convincing victory comes a week after Georgia Tech’s anger against Florida State put the Yellow Jackets right at the breaking point of the Amway coaching poll, as the first team out of the Top 25.
While Jackets are not a leading candidate for the ACC, meaning victory may seem weaker in November than on Saturday, knights may rely on a 28-point victory along the way to advance to the polls while resorting to games opposed to Americans. Competition.
Sophomore Dillon Gabriel has temporarily become a player to follow from a national team consistent with perspective. After pitching 29 touchdowns and averaging 9. 2 yards consistent with rookie attempts, Gabriel began his season at the moment with 417 yards per pass and four scores opposed to a Georgia Tech defense that kept FSU at 4. 4 yards consistent with the pitch and had three catches in the first game.
Will this be enough for UCF? The existing playoff format leaves no room for the Group of Five, so it’s hard to imagine a realistic situation in which the Knights end up in the most sensible 4: it’s possible, but not likely. But the only way the Knights can think about this verbal exchange is to fight Georgia Tech. Saturday a success.
Here are Saturday’s winners and losers:
Winners
Miami, Florida)
Miami has an explanation as to why to be considered acc’s third-best team (behind Clemson and Notre Dame) after a 47-34 victory in Louisville. It’s time for Hurricanes to win straight to start the season, after Alabama-Birmingham. , and will help erase any consideration that arose from a 6-7 final in 2019, the show’s first season with coach Manny Diaz. During a general off-season, the addition of Miami to Quarterback D’Eriq King and Quincy Roche (edge runner) would have been one of ACC’s most important off-season stories. As things are, positive hurricane movements since the end of last season have been largely ignored in the run-up to September.
Clemson
Clemson beat The Citadel, of course. Don’t look so surprised, but no one was hurt. Trevor Lawrence pitched three touchdowns and retired well before the end of the fourth minute. Travis Etienne gave a few touches, broke some tackles and then took the rest of the night. At 49-0 at half-time, the Tigers were able to play substitutes and newcomers for long minutes as Dabo Swinney watched to deepen the moment point for a team that appears to be ready for a naming career.
Boston College
Notre Dame Phil Jurkovec’s move pitched for three hundred yards and two touchdowns when the Eagles beat Duke 26-6 at a very positive start for freshman coach Jeff Hafley. The Blue Devils were competitive with Notre Dame by losing 27-13 last Saturday. It’s the kind of opponent Boston College has to beat to win over 4 regular-season games.
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After that uneven functionality opposed to Duke, the Irish achieved a 52-0 victory over South Florida, which saw a much more powerful game by Quarterback Ian Book, who ran three touchdowns before the substitutes entered with a few minutes to play in the third quarter. As the defensive bleach and the biggest offensive balance oppose the Bulls, a show that is being rebuilt for new coach Jeff Scott, the Irish look has prepared for a downing ACC list. warms up in October.
Smu
The Mustangs’ 65-35 victory in North Texas included 710 yards of offensive more or less slightly divided between the race and pass: 366 yards on the floor and 344 yards in the air. It is this offensive that makes EMS an underestimated risk in the United States.
Solar belt
A week after winning 3 games opposed to the Big 12 festival to be one of the wonderful stories of school football, the Sun Belt’s reputation plummeted after the 21st Louisiana-Lafayette needed to beat Georgia State and the 23rd Appalachian State lost 17-7 to Marshall While Thundering Herd is expected to be one of the 3 most sensitive groups at the US conference. The defeat is causing significant damage to the Appalachian State’s quest to succeed in the Six Bowl on New Year’s Eve.
State of Oklahoma
The Cowboys’ 16-7 win over Tulsa was a slow start for a team with preseason exaggeration as a playoff contender. The lack of power and power in the attack can be attributed to an injury by Quarterback Spencer Sanders and the below-average game on The Offensive Line, which dropped six catches. Tulsa kept offensive lineman Chuba Hubbard 93 yards on 27 hauls, ending his streak of 11 consecutive 100-yard games.
Tulane
Now the green wave knows how it feels. A week after climbing a 24-6 deficit to beat southern Alabama 27-24, Tulane claimed a 24-0 lead over the Navy through the same score. The apparent credit is for the Navy and coach Ken Niumatalolo for coming out of a primary hole after losing Brigham Young 55-3 in the first game. Missed Opportunities Will Hang Out Tulane: The Navy played only two games in Green Wave territory in the first half and Tulane launched an interception near the line of purpose while looking for the 24-0 lead.
Middle Tennessee
It wasn’t good: Middle Tennessee opened with defeats to Army and Troy through a combined score of 89-14. Saturday’s 47-14 loss to the Trojans came here when the Blue Raiders’ defense allowed 496 yards and 30 first attempts, while the offense committed three more ball losses, giving team seven in two games.