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David Hale
A lot of faculty soccer these previous few years has been outlined by what’s new. There’s the switch portal, NIL cash, income sharing, revamped rosters, realignment, non-public fairness corporations seeking to do enterprise with colleges, and leagues keen to construct up their money reserves to allow them to lastly afford to construct these gold-plated lockers they’ve had their eyes on. In case you fell right into a coma in 2019 and awoke per week in the past, the whole lot of the game would really feel like some form of fever dream.
And but, for all this variation, for all that is new in school soccer, one factor has remained steadfastly true: The most important manufacturers have continued to dominate the game.
It has been almost three many years since we have had a first-time nationwide champion. It has been greater than 4 many years since Florida State and Miami compelled their manner into the staid ranks of faculty soccer’s blue bloods. It has been a lifetime since somebody within the Huge Ten may realistically be referred to as “enjoyable.”
However right here we’re, midway by the 2025 season, and Indiana has given us one thing distinctive, entertaining and really new — a program that had wallowed in obscurity for many years is now a real energy on the nationwide stage.
“We confirmed the nation we’re an actual crew,” quarterback Fernando Mendoza stated after Saturday’s gorgeous 30-20 win over No. 3 Oregon.
It is true. Indiana has uniforms, a playbook and every thing else.
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Elijah Sarratt’s TD places Indiana forward for good
Fernando Mendoza connects with Elijah Sarratt to take the lead towards the Geese.
The appearance of NIL, income sharing and the portal was supposed to easily make the wealthy richer, however the reverse has largely been true, and Indiana is Exhibit No. 1. Till 2020, Taylor Swift had not been alive throughout a 12 months by which the Hoosiers completed ranked within the AP High 25, and stunningly she hadn’t written a single music about how unhappy that was. Even that 2020 season was principally a figment of COVID’s synthetic actuality, and this system regressed to 2-10 a season later. It is nearly unattainable to overstate simply how bleak Indiana’s soccer historical past had been, so unhealthy that even amid all of the basketball program’s malaise, nobody ever thought, “Hey, perhaps we may care about soccer as an alternative.” Indiana was cheerfully irrelevant, not even curiously unhealthy, however reasonably simply pointless to any bigger dialog. Just like the protagonist of each John Mellencamp music, Indiana was a program destined to relive the indignities of each previous era, irrespective of how laborious it fought towards the crushing obviousness of all of it. It was Jack and Diane and Gerry DiNardo.
Then Curt Cignetti arrived, overhauled the roster, brashly advised the world to Google him, and after scrolling previous 73 sponsored outcomes promoting military-grade turbines, you realized that the Hoosiers coach had gained all over the place he had ever been, and he wasn’t about to vary now.
“I felt this coming in,” Cignetti stated of Saturday’s win.
Cignetti stated he had “massive street wins” at his previous stops, and irrespective of that these stops had been in locations like IUP, Elon, James Madison and never the Huge Ten, his instinct was proper.
On Saturday, Mendoza slung the ball round, hitting star receiver Elijah Sarratt eight instances for 121 yards and a rating.
On Saturday, Aiden Fisher and the nation’s most underrated protection held Heisman Trophy favourite Dante Moore to simply 5.5 yards per throw and picked him off twice.
On Saturday, it grew to become completely affordable to ask if Indiana may win a nationwide championship.
That may be a patently absurd assertion, like asking if a fish may very well be elected prime minister of Canada. In fact, Canada tried that with a very cogent salmon within the Twenties, and it labored out horribly. The Hoosiers, however, appear completely at residence atop the school soccer universe.
Then go searching the remainder of the Huge Ten. Penn State is in shambles after a 3rd straight loss. Michigan was upended by USC 31-13 in a sport that was extra about what the Wolverines are missing than what USC is likely to be able to carrying out. In fact, this might additionally all be a part of Michigan’s plan to lure Ohio State right into a false sense of confidence solely to beat Ryan Day once more on the finish of November, as a result of it is manner funnier when it occurs that manner.
Elsewhere, Nebraska narrowly escaped Maryland, UCLA now looks as if a troublesome out, and issues are so bleak at Wisconsin everybody has already moved on to ice fishing season.
Amid all that mediocrity, Indiana is a breath of contemporary air, the kind of story films are made about. We will image it now: a lovable band of hardworking upstarts satisfied by a coach brimming with confidence that they are simply nearly as good as the facility gamers everybody thinks ought to win. They might name the film “Hoosiers.” It would be an immediate basic.
In fact, the story will get the storybook ending provided that Indiana retains successful, and though the remaining schedule is greater than amenable, the Hoosiers’ final date with future will arrive ultimately.
The Buckeyes are the defending champs, the usual by which everybody else within the Huge Ten is judged. Ohio State dominated No. 17 Illinois on Saturday, too — 34-16 — however that win hardly warrants headlines as a result of the Buckeyes are used to doing this. Ohio State is a narrative when it does not win, not when it lives as much as all of the superior billing. The Buckeyes chug alongside, changing bastions of NFL expertise with a contemporary forged, 12 months after 12 months.
Indiana continues to be a narrative as a result of we could not have seen this coming. Indiana is a shock. Indiana is new.
This isn’t a sport that welcomes anybody new to the get together, which makes what Indiana is doing nonetheless a wholly precarious factor.
But when Cignetti and the Hoosiers can hold successful, can get to the Huge Ten championship and upend the Buckeyes, could make the playoff and win there, too, if they’ll win a lot that nobody is stunned when it occurs anymore, that may be an actual story.
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Week 7 vibe test
Every week, the largest video games ship thrilling outcomes that shift the panorama of the school soccer world. Past these headlines, nevertheless, a number of different subtler shifts happen. We attempt to seize these right here.
Trending down: Week 1 overreactions
Two issues had been clear after the primary Saturday of the common season: Florida State was again and Kalen DeBoer was being fitted for his membership jacket within the Alabama teaching bust membership alongside Mike DuBose and Mike Shula. Mike Worth would’ve been in, too, however he by accident ended up on the unsuitable membership completely.
Effectively, six weeks later, issues look a bit of completely different.
The Tide knocked off Missouri 27-24 — the fifth straight crew to be handed its first lack of the season by Alabama — thanks to a different good efficiency by Ty Simpson, who threw for 3 touchdowns within the win. The Tide protection held Missouri’s Heisman Trophy hopeful Ahmad Hardy to simply 52 yards dashing, serving to pave the way in which to a win for an offense that mustered simply 325 complete yards — together with 2 by heart Parker Brailsford, 2 by left sort out Kadyn Proctor and none by star receiver Ryan Williams.
The win proved one other résumé builder in Simpson’s Heisman marketing campaign, one thing that may’ve appeared patently absurd to say after the FSU loss. It was additionally one other victory for DeBoer’s famed “black hoodie of dying,” which is now probably the most profitable little bit of teaching apparel since Dan Mullen’s legendary “grey cozy pants of mediocrity.”
Kalen DeBoer arrives in CoMo within the black hoodie of dying pic.twitter.com/GHKS4GLcR4
— Nick Kelly (@_NickKelly) October 11, 2025
In the meantime, Florida State misplaced for the third straight time, 34-31, to Pitt, and has now gone 386 days with out an ACC win. The Noles allowed Pitt freshman QB Mason Heintschel to throw for 321 yards, and FSU has surrendered factors on 17 of 33 full drives throughout the three-game skid.
Since Sept 22, 2024, 46 completely different colleges have extra wins vs. the ACC than Florida State does.
That is really unbelievable.
— 💫🅰️♈️🆔 (@ADavidHaleJoint) October 11, 2025
This leads us to some compelling proof as we start to debate who’ll be within the 12-team playoff. Florida State beat, arguably, one of the best crew within the SEC. Florida State is 0-3 within the ACC. Due to this fact, the ACC is clearly far, much better than the SEC. That is simply math.
Trending up: Interim teaching
UCLA continues to look distinctive after firing DeShaun Foster, as Tim Skipper and the Bruins walloped Michigan State 38-13 on Saturday.
After mustering simply 57 complete factors amid an 0-4 begin underneath Foster, the teaching change has supplied a spark to UCLA that sometimes cannot be achieved with out consuming that lemonade from Panera that has a lot guanine it means that you can journey by time.
Skipper has been a revelation. On the flight to Michigan, he left a word on every seat on the airplane studying, “Are you a one-hit surprise?” which served to encourage each his crew and Dexys Midnight Runners who returned to the studio for the primary time in 43 years in hopes of getting a second hit. Skipper additionally confirmed loads of chutzpah by calling for a brilliantly executed pretend punt that led to a UCLA landing.
FAKE PUNT ‼️ @UCLAFootball
📺: BTN pic.twitter.com/S3O57VVF20
— Huge Ten Community (@BigTenNetwork) October 11, 2025
UCLA has put up 80 factors towards Penn State and Michigan State the previous two weeks with Jerry Neuheisel calling the performs and, we assume, stealing Kelly Kapowski’s coronary heart within the course of.
The important thing to the offensive turnaround has been the legs of QB Nico Iamaleava, who ran for 128 yards and three touchdowns in Saturday’s win, main his agent to instantly demand a commerce again to the SEC.
Trending up: Adjustments in Completely satisfied Valley
Penn State opened the season No. 2 within the nation. The Nittany Lions have now misplaced three in a row, after falling to Northwestern 22-21 Saturday. The passing and floor sport struggled, and after Penn State scored a go-ahead TD with 10:50 to play within the sport, the Jim Knowles-led protection surrendered a 12-play, 75-yard landing drive that, till that second, the oldsters working at Northwestern’s physics division had solely hypothesized was theoretically doable.
All of this leaves Penn State in a bleak place. Hopes for the playoff are over, and Drew Allar suffered a season-ending harm. Penn State would owe James Franklin a boatload of money to fireplace him, and the world’s greatest bioengineers are nonetheless months away from growing a microchip that may enable Franklin to expertise feelings throughout a loss. And the subsequent three video games for the Nittany Lions: at Iowa, at Ohio State, vs. Indiana.
There is likely to be severe rumblings about now that Penn State may very well be this 12 months’s 2024 Florida State, besides 2025 Florida State appears to have dibs on that title already.
Trending up: Hugh Freeze’s anger
Two weeks in the past, Auburn would possibly’ve toppled Oklahoma, however a pair of officiating choices doomed the Tigers. The SEC apologized later for one blown name involving a Sooners participant who feigned leaving the sport, nevertheless it did little to vary the end result.
Saturday, Auburn seemed to be on the verge of taking a big lead towards Georgia in a sport that may’ve been a turning level for Freeze’s program, and once more, the officers intervened.
Jackson Arnold gave the impression to be in the long run zone for a landing that may’ve put Auburn up 17-0, however he was dominated down on the 1-inch line. On the subsequent play, Arnold once more appeared to cross the objective line earlier than having the ball punched out, and once more, the official disagreed. The play was dominated a fumble recovered by Georgia, which went on to attain its first factors of the sport. Auburn by no means got here near cracking the scoreboard once more, and the Dawgs gained 20-10.
So many close to misses in back-to-back massive video games all going towards Auburn is tough to consider. What, in any case, has Freeze ever finished to deserve such issues? Wait, do not reply that.
Trending down: Nussmeier harm worries
Garrett Nussmeier, who is unquestionably not harm, threw two picks as LSU struggled to seek out pay filth but once more, however the Tigers’ protection proved ok to prepared the ground to a different win, 20-10 over South Carolina.
Nussmeier is ok, actually. No motive to imagine in any other case. Brian Kelly is so positive his QB is ok that his face is crimson with delight, and he is slamming his fist on tables simply to drive residence the purpose that there’s positively nothing unsuitable with Nussmeier.
Nonetheless, LSU has performed 5 video games vs. FBS competitors thus far this season, and it has but to attain greater than 23 factors. Which is ok. Every thing is ok. Cease asking.
Trending down: A Petrino turnaround
If Week 7 was a crowning second for Curt Cignetti and his “Google me” catchphrase, it was a barely much less spectacular teaching efficiency for Bobby Petrino, and his well-known catchphrase, “Please, no matter you do, do not Google me.”
Petrino, in his first sport as Arkansas‘ interim head coach after Sam Pittman was fired two weeks in the past, did have the Hogs prepared for Tennessee, even main halfway by the second quarter. However Tennessee reeled off 24 straight factors earlier than a late Arkansas comeback try fell brief.
Will an in depth loss to the No. 12 crew within the nation do a lot for Petrino’s quest to regain the job he was as soon as fired from in shame? He ought to most likely brace for the truth that it is not, or boy would his face be crimson when he does not get it.
Trending down: Colorado‘s petty money
Deion Sanders bought his first win over a ranked foe since his first sport at Colorado by knocking off No. 22 Iowa State 24-17. The gang then stormed the sphere, marking probably the most excited anybody has ever been about one thing involving the state of Iowa. Afterward, Sanders was totally flabbergasted to study a discipline storming comes with a $50,000 high-quality. Fortunately nobody advised him how a lot eggs value now.
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Colorado followers storm discipline; Deion ‘glad and elated’
Colorado followers storm the sphere after the Buffaloes upset Iowa State, and Deion Sanders shares his ideas on the victory.
Trending up: The Tar Heels
North Carolina was off this week, thus going seven full days with out an on-field embarrassment. As an alternative, the one facepalms UNC confronted up to now week had been the cancellation of a Hulu documentary, the suspension of an assistant coach for recruiting violations, studies of a divided locker room, studies that Invoice Belichick and the varsity had been engaged on a buyout after simply 5 video games, and, in fact, Belichick utilizing a winch he stole from Roy Williams’ shed to take away the statue of Charlie Justice from in entrance of Kenan Stadium so he may get a greater parking spot.
Huge 12 hijinks
As a result of the Huge 12 is actually school soccer’s Mad Libs, Week 7 was as soon as once more wild within the convention.
All the way down to its fourth-string kicker, Iowa State rolled out a 310-pound freshman in addition kickoffs, which will need to have given Kadyn Proctor some concepts.
— no context school soccer (@nocontextcfb) October 11, 2025
Issues are bleak in Stillwater, however Oklahoma State followers nonetheless know find out how to have time.
Guys being dudes https://t.co/rWHi3VPx8y pic.twitter.com/tNhY2CdGSm
— Oklahoma State Athletics (@OSUAthletics) October 11, 2025
If Mike Gundy was not amongst these shirtless followers, we query what he is even doing together with his free time now.
Texas Tech dominated Kansas in a 42-17 win regardless of the lack of beginning QB Behren Morton due to tailback Cameron Dickey, who ran for 263 yards and a pair of touchdowns. It was probably the most dashing yards by a Crimson Raiders participant since Byron Hanspard had 287 in 1996.
Arizona State‘s hopes to repeat as Huge 12 champs took an enormous hit in Week 7 with out beginning QB Sam Leavitt. As an alternative, the Solar Devils turned to journeyman Jeff Sims, who has had stints at Georgia Tech, Nebraska and, we assume, spent a 12 months dwelling off the land and discovering his inside fact in Joshua Tree. The consequence was predictably unhealthy, as Utah dominated in a 42-10 win.
After which there was BYU, which was on the verge of dropping its first sport of the season, trailing by a landing with 2:46 to play. That closing drive included seven performs contained in the Arizona 8, a fumble, two replay opinions and two penalties that gave BYU a contemporary set of downs earlier than Bear Bachmeier dove into the tip zone for a game-tying rating. The sport went to a second time beyond regulation earlier than Noah Fifita‘s closing move on fourth down bounced off a receiver’s arms in the long run zone, and the Cougars gained 33-27 to stay undefeated.
Midseason Group of 5 convention rundown
A playoff crew, no Bull
The perfect crew within the Group of 5? It positive seems as if it is likely to be USF.
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South Florida Bulls vs. North Texas Imply Inexperienced: Full Highlights
South Florida Bulls vs. North Texas Imply Inexperienced: Full Highlights
The Bulls have already got wins over Boise State and Florida, and on Friday, they used a third-quarter scoring barrage to rack up a dominant 63-36 win over beforehand undefeated North Texas.
USF scored 4 touchdowns within the span of simply 3:37 of sport clock, turning a 21-14 deficit simply earlier than the half right into a 42-21 lead with 11:35 to play within the third quarter.
Mixed with the recent begin by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers within the NFL ranks, soccer has confirmed to be a saving grace for the native space.
Rebels hit the jackpot
Six video games into his tenure as the top coach at UNLV Dan Mullen has but to lose, the Rebels are within the combine for a playoff berth, and nobody has thrown a shoe at a vital time.
UNLV survived an onslaught from Air Force on Saturday, 51-48, as Anthony Colandrea accounted for 423 yards and three touchdowns, together with the sport winner with 36 seconds to go.
The Falcons — electrical on offense and totally dismal on D — are an journey on a weekly foundation, with almost any final result doable, the school soccer model of a 2 a.m. journey to Waffle Home. It is invigorating and terrifying, satisfying and a bit of harmful, and when it is over, you are usually confused about why every thing is so sticky. And Saturday’s affair was no completely different. Air Pressure racked up 603 yards of offense, erased six completely different UNLV leads, and regardless of coughing up the late rating, nonetheless had an opportunity to tie it after going 52 yards on six performs, however missed a 40-yard discipline objective as time expired.
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Air Pressure Falcons vs. UNLV Rebels: Full Highlights
Air Pressure Falcons vs. UNLV Rebels: Full Highlights
The win will get UNLV bowl eligible at 6-0, however the Rebels are considering greater — a Mountain West title and a playoff bid, and burgeoning rumors of Mullen being a candidate for the soon-to-be-vacant Florida job.
Who, who, who’s main Convention USA?
Thursday’s motion featured a showdown between Convention USA powers rivaled in stature solely by a Battle of the Bands competitors involving Creed and Sugar Ray. Kennesaw State drubbed Louisiana Tech 35-7 behind a four-TD efficiency from QB Dexter Williams.
Imagine it or not, the Owls at the moment are 4-2 on the season, doubling final 12 months’s win complete already. That is a large success for a soccer program that was based simply 10 years in the past by 22 guys behind an Atlanta safety line that had reached all the way in which to Kennesaw’s campus, and the sky is the restrict for the place the Owls would possibly go.
Of Kennesaw State’s remaining schedule, solely New Mexico State (3-2) has a successful report. If the crew can run the desk and make it to the convention title sport, it is doubtless not more than a pair years away from getting an official invitation to hitch the American, in order that convention can correctly create a separate parliament of owls division with FAU, Temple and Rice.
MAC-tical jokers
It was both Leo Tolstoy or Frank Solich who stated, “All good groups are alike; every unhealthy crew is unhealthy in its personal manner.”
This was actually true for Saturday’s pillow combat between MAC doormats Kent State and UMass. The Golden Flashes hadn’t gained a FBS sport since 2022, however a minimum of there’s some historical past of success there. It is a program seeking management and route, discovering its place within the new world of faculty soccer in 2025. UMass’s failures, nevertheless, can greatest be described because the soccer equal of that Ben Affleck image the place he is carrying a towel on the seashore and staring out towards the horizon pondering his personal insignificance in an infinite, uncaring universe. The Minutemen are 4-57 vs. FBS for the reason that begin of the 2019 season and 26-127 general since changing into an FBS crew in 2012.
And so it was that Kent State proved that, on the ladder of success, it has a minimum of climbed one rung, whereas UMass continues to dig deeper into its personal grave Saturday. The Golden Flashes cruised to a 42-6 win, behind 4 landing passes from Dru DeShields.
Bonus: Beavers hopes damned
Issues are bleak for Oregon State. The Beavers fell to 0-7 on the 12 months after Wake Forest backup QB Deshawn Purdie threw 4 landing passes in a 39-14 win. The Beavers have now misplaced 13 of their previous 14 video games, with the lone win coming towards the one different crew presently of their convention, Washington State.
In the meantime, these Cougars had Ole Miss on upset alert, because the Rebels faltered early when QB Trinidad Chambliss was changed by his far much less profitable twin Tobago Chambliss, who struggled within the crimson zone early, and the Rebels trailed 14-10 halfway by the third quarter. Chambliss recovered, nevertheless, and completed the sport with three complete touchdowns and a 24-21 win.
Because the breakup of the outdated Pac-12, Washington State and Oregon State at the moment are a mixed 3-10 vs. Energy 4 competitors, whereas George Kliavkoff wallows on his sofa looking at an outdated photograph of the Oregon Duck.
Herd QB revival
When final we noticed Carlos Del Rio-Wilson, he was benched at Syracuse in favor of a decent finish in a season that in the end bought Dino Babers fired. However as anybody in Syracuse is aware of, when life offers you 43 ft of snow, you decide your self up, seize your shovel and begin digging once more.
And so it’s that Del Rio-Wilson has discovered new life at Marshall, accounting for 4 touchdowns in a dominant 48-24 win over a abruptly surging Old Dominion on Saturday. Del Rio-Wilson threw for 219 yards and a pair of scores and ran for 95 and two extra touchdowns. It is the kind of surprising success that makes one surprise no matter occurred to different infamously unsuccessful Syracuse QBs reminiscent of Rex Culpepper, Zack Mahoney, Terrel Hunt, Greg Paulus, AJ Lengthy, Clayton Welch … and we’re sorry we’re being advised we wouldn’t have area for an entire listing.
Below-the-radar play of the week
As if soccer wasn’t laborious sufficient for the blokes at Stanford proper now, SMU quarterback Kevin Jennings upped the diploma of problem by a large margin Saturday, dishing a behind-the-back move to tight finish RJ Maryland halfway by the primary quarter.
KEVIN JENNINGS GOES BEHIND THE BACK 😱 pic.twitter.com/GIKmZj0PuB
— The CW Sports activities (@TheCW_Sports) October 11, 2025
9 performs later, Jennings related with Derrick McFall for a 19-yard TD move, giving the Mustangs their first factors of the sport in what would ultimately be a 34-10 win over the Cardinal.
It wasn’t all excellent news for SMU, nevertheless. Jennings’ ball distribution was so fairly that, by Dallas legislation, the Dallas Mavericks needed to instantly commerce him to the Los Angeles Lakers after the sport.
Below-the-radar sport of the week
Bowling Green is feline good after a frisky 28-23 come-from-behind win Saturday over Toledo.
For many of the sport, Bowling Inexperienced merely appeared to be toying with the Rockets like so many balls of yarn, however throughout a wild four-play stretch halfway by the fourth quarter, the Falcons proved they weren’t kitten round, scoring on a 73-yard move, recovering a fumble Toledo coughed up like a hair ball two performs later, then attacking the tip zone like a laser pointer from 1 yard out on the subsequent play.
Eddie George picked up his first MAC win as Bowling Inexperienced’s coach, although truthfully nobody cares. Bowling Inexperienced has a crew cat. Everybody loves the cat.
That is Main Pudge to Floor Management …#AyZiggy pic.twitter.com/ZTHyDwA7BT
— BGSU Soccer (@BG_Football) October 11, 2025
Heisman 5
1. Indiana QB Fernando Mendoza
Previously calendar 12 months, Mendoza is finishing 71% of his throws with 29 complete touchdowns and 5 interceptions, and that is regardless of half these video games coming whereas enjoying within the ACC, which as everyone knows is not purported to have good issues.
2. Alabama QB Ty Simpson
Because the opener towards Florida State, Simpson is finishing 76% of his throws, averaging 9.7 yards per move, and has thrown 14 touchdowns with only one decide. Truthfully, it feels actually unusual to listing off a bunch of excellent stats whereas including, “in the event you do not depend the Florida State sport.”
3. Miami DE Rueben Bain Jr.
Most individuals have Carson Beck because the Heisman front-runner as a result of it’s, by and enormous, a QB award. However nobody at Miami has made an even bigger affect on the Hurricanes this 12 months than Bain, who has been an absolute wrecking machine off the sting. However, in fact, the percentages of a defensive participant successful the Heisman are lengthy, and the one path to it occurring is for Bain to have an undeniably charming narrative that voters can embrace. So, for so long as he stays Miami’s greatest participant, we’ll work on constructing that narrative by sharing a little-known reality concerning the Canes’ star defensive finish. For instance, do you know Bain was born on Sept. 8, 2004, and on Sept. 10, 2004, he drove his mother residence from the hospital and assembled his personal crib?
4. Cincinnati QB Brendan Sorsby
A fast blind comparability:
QB A: 87.3 Whole QBR, 9.8 yards/move, 14 TD, 1 INT
QB B: 88.4 Whole QBR, 10.8 yards/move, 14 TD, 0 INT
QB A represents Simpson’s stat line since an opening-week loss. QB B is Sorsby’s numbers after Cincinnati’s opening-week loss. The nation’s most underrated QB is slinging it and has the Bearcats in rivalry within the Huge 12.
5. Notre Dame QB CJ Carr
Carr threw for 342 yards and a pair of scores in a 36-7 win over NC State. The efficiency helped Notre Dame keep away from dropping a second straight sport to an ACC foe for the primary time since 2014. Since then, the Irish are 49-10 vs. the ACC. Solely Clemson (80) and Miami (50) have extra wins vs. the ACC in that span than Notre Dame, even if Notre Dame doesn’t play within the ACC.
