Wow, what a weekend.
From the “Talks too much” studios, there’s no time for dallying.
Weekend winners
Mississippi coach Dan Mullen speaks to the media at the Southeastern Conference NCAA college football media days Tuesday, July 14, 2015, in Hoover, Ala. College football teams in Mississippi. Ole Miss pimp-slapped Texas A&M 23-3 in a game that was not that close and in a fashion that you have to wonder who the real Aggies are. Mississippi State handled its BID-ness extremely impressively in a 42-16 victory in a game a lot of people thought UK could win outright. The truly elite coaches like Saban and Meyer and a few others win so much you are surprised when they lose. But one of the hidden hallmarks of very good coaches is winning games you are a 10-point-or-less favorites, especially at home. Hugh Freeze and Dan Mullen are very good coaches.
Georgia Tech. Wow. Just wow. If you missed it, this happened on The Flats. And college football walk-off wins are cool. (Side note: The 5-at-10 projections were pretty stout this weekend. Yes, 5-2 is not perfect, and we missed the Ole Miss-Texas A&M pick by a bunch. But the five wins were relatively stress-free. (The other loss was the over-under on Duke-Virginia Tech, which went through the roof once overtime came into play.) That said – and we could very likely be the exact end of wrong next week – we wrote the following in last picks: First team in Vandy-Missouri to 10 wins (Vandy won 10-3); UCF is bad. Like, really bad. Like no fans at the stadium and wondering if it’s time to break up with coach George O’Leary bad (O’Leary resigned/retired Sunday); Miami, which going to fold on coach Al Golden sooner rather than later (Ouch); Bowling Green is going to put half a hundred on Kent State (BGSU won 48-0). And for good measure, on Press Row on Friday we said Georgia Tech was going to win the weekend. That’s a pretty good roll. Some would even call it highly entertaining.)