College Football Week Ten Recap

It’s been just a few days since the first College Football Playoff rankings were released, and we already have chaos. 

On Saturday when only one game was played between ranked teams, we quickly realized that we were all in for a fun day of college football. 

Besides No. 1 Georgia, no team in the top six of the CFP ranking impressed, with quite a few surviving scares. 

Let’s take a look at the best from week ten of the college football season.

North Carolina ends Demon Deacons’ undefeated season

It may have strangely been a non-conference game between two ACC opponents, but Saturday’s matchup between Wake Forest and North Carolina had major implications for the Demon Deacons. 

Undefeated, ranked in the top ten, and with an eye on the CFP, Wake Forest had a chance to send the playoff committee a message with a visit to Chapel Hill. 

There was a message, but it wasn’t the one Wake Forest was hoping to send. 

The Demon Deacons blew an 18-point third quarter lead, losing in a shootout to the Tar Heels 58-55, ending their undefeated season and any hope of making the College Football Playoff. 

“It just felt like a rerun of last year’s game,” Wake Forest coach Dave Clawson said.

North Carolina running back Ty Chandler rushed for 213 yards and four touchdowns, including a 50-yard back-breaker with 1:12 left in the fourth quarter to put the game away. 

“It’s a great feeling,” said North Carolina safety Cam’Ron Kelly, who had a pair of interceptions. “Them being ranked 9, 10 — I don’t even know.”

Ohio State survives in Lincoln 

Poor Scott Frost. Nebraska’s defense played a ‘bend but don’t break’ game, but the Cornhuskers offense couldn’t capitalize, missing two field goals and managing to get into the endzone just twice in a 26-17 loss to the Buckeyes. 

“I hate losing more than anybody in that locker room,” Frost said. “But I just love being the coach here, I love these kids. They battled through a lot. This is going to pop at Nebraska. It just is. We’re doing too many good things right. We have too many good young players. We’re putting ourselves in position to win too many games and just not making a play or catching a break.”

The victory for Ohio State won’t win any style points, but a win is a win, and it’s the seventh in a row for Ryan Day’s squad. 

“It’s hard to win in this conference,” Day

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