Week 7 of the 2016 college football season is complete, and once again, not every team within the Top 25 came out unscathed.  Of the 20 ranked teams in action this week, five of them went down, and a few others experienced scares.  As we've reached the halfway point in October, here are the current rankings and predictions of how they'll look when the Week 8 polls are released on Sunday evening:             ...

With all 11 unbeaten FBS teams managing to remain that way, Week 7 didn't provide the kind of upsets and unexpected outcomes that most other weekends of college football have this season. But that doesn't mean there wasn't drama and intrigue involving teams that are featured in the Bleacher Report Top 25. Clemson and Ohio State needed overtime to outlast their opponents, while other highly rated teams also struggled and narrowly escaped defeat. These results led ...

The rain spit down momentarily Saturday night at Camp Randall Stadium, long enough to allow the ball to slip out of Ohio State quarterback J.T. Barrett’s hand and almost spoil one of the most anticipated matchups of the season. This game was pretty darn good, of course. And in the end, No. 2 Ohio State woke up and made enough plays to pull off a 30-23 comeback win in overtime over No. 8 Wisconsin. And while the ...

The Buckeyes looked horrendous early, but they escaped Madison with a win over a Top 10 Wisconsin team. The Buckeyes didn’t do anything particularly well but did just enough to squeak out a 30-23 overtime win in one of the most hostile environments in the country. Here’s how I graded the Buckeyes' performance on the road.Begin Slideshow

It will quickly become a taboo word at the University of Alabama, at least in the football building, where a matching set of cast bronze trophies rest prominently on pedestals the Crimson Tide players have to walk by every day. It’s down the hall from the where the national championship trophies are displayed, something else Alabama doesn’t talk about during a season.  But when it comes to quarterback Jalen Hurts, it’s time for the “H” word to ...

No. 2 Ohio State overcame a 10-point halftime deficit and then survived in overtime to earn a 30-23 road win Saturday over No. 8 Wisconsin. Tied at 23-23 after regulation, the Buckeyes got the ball first in overtime and scored easily as J.T. Barrett found Noah Brown on a seven-yard touchdown to go up seven points. While the Badgers got to the 4-yard line on the ensuing drive, a Tyquan Lewis sack on fourth down sealed the ...

Notre Dame is now 2-5.  Let that sink in for just a moment.  The Notre Dame Fighting Irish, a preseason Top 10 team with College Football Playoff aspirations have now won just two of its first seven games. Week after week, we sit back after the final whistle and try and digest what we just saw.  After seven weeks of junk, we're getting a serious case of indigestion.  There's no getting around it: Notre Dame is ...

It took a half to get going—perhaps shaking off the cobwebs of an unexpected week off—but the LSU Tigers dominated the Southern Miss Golden Eagles on Saturday night 45-10, improving to 2-0 under interim head coach Ed Orgeron and 4-2 overall this season.  The lackluster start was disconcerting for LSU, but those qualms faded away almost immediately in the second half when the Tigers offense came to life and never took its foot off the gas.  Southern ...

In a wild back-and-forth battle, the Arkansas Razorbacks were able to secure a come-from-behind 34-30 victory against the Ole Miss Rebels for their first SEC win of the year.  The Razorbacks, despite entering Saturday ranked 22nd in the Associated Press and coaches' poll, had lost their first two conference games. Those defeats can be excused since they came against Alabama and Texas A&M.  Ole Miss rebounded nicely after that season-opening collapse against Florida State, with a tight ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The gap has never seemed so wide. This was supposed to be the season the Tennessee Volunteers closed in on heated, hated rival Alabama. Instead, the Crimson Tide pieced together their most thorough domination over an injury-depleted and overwhelmed Volunteers team in more than a century, walloping UT 49-10 at Neyland Stadium in convincing fashion worthy of a top-ranked team. Not even during the Derek Dooley era was a loss to 'Bama this lopsided. There ...