An incredible weekend of action produced remarkably little movement. Call it “almost” upheaval. Several championship contenders had to beat back defeat, yet all met the challenge. A cursory look at Sunday’s rankings suggested it was business as usual. A month from now, though, teams still in the mix for the four-team College Football Playoff will look back on Oct. 10 as the day things could have slipped away. Top-ranked Ohio State stayed top-ranked with a misleading 49-28 home win over Maryland, which fell to 2-4 and promptly fired Coach Randy Edsall. Maryland led, 7-0, and had the game tied, 21-all, before Ohio State finally pulled away. The Buckeyes still don’t look right but are working out the kinks while winning. That puts them way ahead of last year’s schedule, when they had to rally back from a home defeat to Virginia Tech to win the national title. Urban Meyer threw a wrinkle into a complicated situation by using Cardale Jones as his middle-field quarterback and J.T…
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