College football Week 13 overreactions: Lincoln Riley’s right move, Alabama’s fault line and the Big 12’s demise

3 Alabama in Saturday’s SEC championship game, then the Crimson Tide along with Cincinnati, Michigan, Oklahoma State and Notre Dame are competing for three spots.

If Georgia beats Alabama and Baylor knocks off Oklahoma State in the Big 12 championship game or Houston upsets Cincinnati in the AAC title game, there’s a good chance Notre Dame could once again make the CFP field.

Now, he’ll be remembered as the one who bolted when the Irish still might have had a chance to win a national title.

In a text message to his players on Monday night, Kelly apologized for not being able to tell them in person that he was leaving.

Riley left, in large part, because USC can be a better job than the one he had.

Nelson was committed to the Sooners, but he has already decommitted, and it wouldn’t be a surprise to see him flip to the Trojans.

As colleague Tom VanHaaren noted, USC has signed only 30 of the 143 ESPN 300 recruits from California over the past five recruiting cycles.

It was the best job when Pete Carroll was coaching at USC and Reggie Bush and Matt Leinart were playing there.

Interior tackles Jordan Davis and Devonte Wyatt are both worthy of being All-Americans, and Jalen Carter might end up being the most talented when all is said and done.

They used a couple different methods with their receivers and different things, but they had first-round draft picks on that offense last year.

That led to two changes on the offensive line, with Chris Owens, the former starter, coming back to replace right tackle Damieon George Jr., and Seth McLaughlin replacing center Darrian Dalcourt.

“That doesn’t fall on deaf ears with our staff, and understand probably two of the hardest places to play in the country are right there.

Eli Manning takes on his own version of his brother’s signature show to explore what makes college football a way of life across the country.

Well, the Big 12 might not have added programs with brand names as powerful as the Longhorns and Sooners, but its future position looks pretty good right now.

Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby took a lot of heat when OU and Texas pulled one over on his league, but he has to be smiling now.

No one is having a Joe Burrow-like year; then again the former LSU quarterback might have had the greatest statistical season of any player in college football history in 2019.

At the very least, there should be at least two defensive players invited to the Heisman ceremonies in New York: Davis, Georgia’s mammoth nose tackle, and Will Anderson, Alabama’s dynamic pass-rusher.

One of them was Nebraska’s Ndamukong Suh, who had one of the all-time best performances by a defender in the Cornhuskers’ 13-12 loss to Texas in the 2009 Big 12 title game.

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