SEC’s crazy, history-making Week 7 weekend is the latest example of college football’s new era
The article says a chaotic Week 7, including five defeats by AP Top 20 SEC teams, shows how college football is entering a more competitive era. It argues that name, image and likeness (NIL) deals and the transfer portal have helped narrow the gap between leading programmes and their challengers, making upsets more likely.
The weekend also reshuffled the entire AP Top 25: no team kept its previous position, Texas fell 12 places and Florida rose 12. The article cites ESPN’s SP+ ratings, which put Ohio State at 26.8, Georgia at 26.5 and Miami at 25.3; tenth-ranked Utah was rated 19.4, around a touchdown behind Ohio State.
- Five ranked SEC teams lost in one weekend.
- Week 7 reshuffled the entire AP Top 25.
- NIL and transfers are narrowing the gap between teams.