August 22, 2026

Column: It’s gonna take Ohio State time to reach peak performance


Oklahoma 35, Kansas State 38 Oklahoma 30, Iowa State 37 Iowa State 14, Louisiana 31 Texas 31, TCU 33 UCF 26, Tulsa 34 LSU 34, Mississippi St. 44 Mississippi St. 14, Arkansas 21 These are just a handful of upsets that have happened to ranked teams so far in the 2020 college football season. This, of course, is not to mention the near misses — heavy favorites squeaking by against teams that you would have expected them to blow out. While obviously there are major upsets practically every week during a normal college football season, that’s one of the reasons that we love this messy, bass-ackwards sport — things just feel weirder in the early goings of this year. Sure, it is probably at least partially due to the Big Ten and Pac-12 not yet playing, but with all of the confusion and uncertainty brought on by COVID-19, it just…

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