Because college football is college football, we just had a college football weekend.
Some upsets, near-miss moments, controversy and more.
The FootballScoop Weekend Rewind assesses it all, and a few days early takes a peek towards the weekend.
And, folks, let's be clear: Tennessee at Oklahoma cannot soon enough arrive.
It's the Josh Heupel Bowl, for sure. But it's also an opportunity for Nico Iamaleava to join transcendent Colorado star Travis Hunter as a legitimate Heisman Trophy contender.
Hunter had a stat line over the weekend that Colorado's very fine sports information/communications staff could only note: Believed to be the first of its kind.
The line for the Deion Sanders-coached Buffaloes? 13 receptions for exactly 100 yards, and an interception he returned an additional 38 yards, plus a handful of tackles and on the field for more than 130 snaps.
Not his career-mark of 146 established last year at TCU, but prodigious nonetheless.
Iamaleava, meanwhile, in his fourth-straight game as starting quarterback for the sixth-ranked Vols has now accounted for 800 yards' offense (698 passing) and seven touchdowns -- in little more than six quarters of work this season.
Tennessee is so blowing out the opposition that Iamaleava playing in the second half is a rarer sighting than Sasquatch.
This week, it gets real-real.
Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops once was so mad at his team's defense that he chased Heupel off of the Sooners's offensive staff.
Heupel has never forgotten.
Meanwhile, what on earth was Mark Stoops thinking?
Probably along the lines of, "I'd go for this crucial fourth-down conversion if we were playing another MAC team."
Alas, Stoops punted and with it kicked away Kentucky's best chance to defeat a top-ranked team in ... 17 years, when Rich Brooks helped the Kittens topple LSU.
Scott Roussel has thoughts. Zach Barnett has thoughts. So, too, does FootballScoop's resident head ball coach, Doug Samuels.
Texas now is No. 1 and Arch Manning is expected to be the Horns's starting QB. At least for this week.
LSU and South Carolina both hate officials this week, but LSU is ticked off after a win.
South Carolina and Shane Beamer should have won, but LaNorris Sellers got hurt and we'll have to see what means for the Gamecocks moving forward.
Anyway ... Team FootballScoop goes coast-to-coast in breaking down this past weekend's key games and moments in both podcast and video form below:
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