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While Clemson outscored Syracuse 17-0 successful the 4th fourth aft making a (temporary) backmost change to stay undefeated, Ole Miss and UCLA saw their cleanable seasons end, arsenic the Rebels and Bruins each allowed 45 points successful respective losses to LSU and Oregon.
Week 8 featured respective cardinal upsets, monolithic comebacks, large plays and different pivotal moments that volition interaction the College Football Playoff picture. We drawback you up connected the champion moments from the week.
Best celebration
Some penalties are wholly worthy it, arsenic Maryland violative lineman Johari Branch showed Saturday.
A antheral of Branch's stature -- 6-foot-3, 330 pounds -- is often miscast for powerfulness and brawn alone. But the Terrapins halfway showcased grace and flair aft Maryland teammate Roman Hemby scored the go-ahead 75-yard touchdown against Northwestern successful the 4th quarter. An extremity portion camera captured Branch doing a cleanable cartwheel crossed the extremity enactment earlier celebrating with his teammates.
That cartwheel y'all 🤣 Annnnnd the champion unsportsmanlike behaviour punishment of the time goes to Johari Branch #Terps pic.twitter.com/GvqAGs8d6L
— Sharla McBride (@SharlaMcBride) October 22, 2022Officials assessed a 15-yard punishment for unsportsmanlike conduct, but Maryland held connected for a 31-24 triumph to go vessel eligible.
Maryland manager Mike Locksley intelligibly didn't similar the punishment connected Branch, but possibly helium tin usage Branch's tumbling talents successful the future. That's what Ohio did successful 2019, erstwhile violative lineman Hagen Meservy lined up arsenic a receiver and cartwheeled to distract the defense for a bully summation connected a walk play.
Bottom line: Never fto a large man's talents spell to waste.
-- Adam Rittenberg
Best mascot
It was each Ducks everything Saturday. Before the prima came up connected Eugene for College Gameday, Puddles was playing and smashing a UCLA-branded guitar (hopefully it wasn't portion of an NIL deal), earlier watching Lee Corso grip -- oregon alternatively mishandle -- a existent beingness duck ...
— nary discourse assemblage shot (@nocontextcfb) October 22, 2022... and prime the Ducks implicit the Bruins.
The Oregon Duck destroyed this UCLA guitar 😳🎸 pic.twitter.com/8yuGIS3UJm
— College GameDay (@CollegeGameDay) October 22, 2022By the clip the time was implicit and Oregon had won, Puddles had besides logged 168 full array push-ups, including 45 successful his past acceptable -- 1 for each constituent the Ducks scored. All successful a day's work.
-- Paolo Uggetti
Best catch
Since moving down to FCS, we don't often get a accidental to cheque successful with Idaho. It's a shame considering the greatness that is the Kibbie Dome. On Saturday, 1 of assemblage football's astir universally adored venues was location to arguably the champion drawback of the weekend.
OKAY @Hayden_Hatten88 ❗#SCTop10 | #GoVandals pic.twitter.com/OgxNcdJ68s
— Idaho Football (@VandalFootball) October 22, 2022Hayden Hatten, instrumentality a bow. Not lone was it an unthinkable show of concentration, the drawback came astatine a pivotal constituent of the game. Idaho led by conscionable 1 people and from determination it went connected to blast Portland State, 56-21, for its 5th consecutive triumph of the season. The Vandals are undefeated against FCS contention -- having lone mislaid to Indiana and Washington State -- and person a monolithic crippled adjacent week astatine undefeated Sacramento State.
-- Kyle Bonagura
Best reunion
The crippled was good successful hand. No. 6 Alabama was good connected its mode to beating No. 24 Mississippi State 30-6 successful Tuscaloosa.
But connected Saturday nighttime successful Bryant-Denny Stadium, determination was a uncommon win-win infinitesimal precocious successful the 4th fourth erstwhile the Preston brothers recovered themselves connected the tract astatine the aforesaid time.
Shawn Preston Jr., a elder antiaircraft backmost astatine Mississippi State, dropped into sum arsenic a walk sailed incomplete toward Christian Leary. And who ran into the aforesaid country of the field? Shazz Preston, a seldom utilized freshman receiver who was trailing the play.
Shazz came up down Shawn and got his attention. Surprised, Shawn leapt and practically tackled his younger member to the ground.
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Alabama's Shazz Preston and Mississippi State's Shawn Preston get excited erstwhile they recognize they're successful the crippled against each other.
No flags were thrown.
The Louisiana natives got to stock a mini reunion earlier getting backmost to the task astatine hand.
There's a accidental that Shawn takes vantage of his 1 remaining twelvemonth of eligibility and they'll get to play 1 different adjacent twelvemonth successful Starkville.
But if that doesn't happen, astatine slightest they got to acquisition Saturday night.
-- Alex Scarborough
Best comeback
It's been a portion for LSU, which has go accustomed to rallying from sizable deficits this season.
So erstwhile No. 7 Ole Miss jumped retired to a 17-3 pb Saturday astatine Tiger Stadium, LSU ne'er flinched, and for lone the 3rd clip arsenic an unranked team, the Tigers bushed an AP Top 10 hostile by 14 points oregon more. They steamrolled the antecedently unbeaten Rebels implicit the last 3 quarters for a convincing 45-20 win.
From this infinitesimal on, LSU outscored Ole Miss 42-3 😳 pic.twitter.com/s5fwLY9iL0
— CBS Sports (@CBSSports) October 22, 2022The past clip LSU had beaten a Top 10 hostile arsenic an unranked squad was backmost successful 1983 erstwhile the Tigers bushed No. 9 Washington (26 points). They bushed No. 9 Florida successful 1977 (22 points).
Even though Ole Miss was ranked No. 7, the oddsmakers had the crippled adjacent going into kickoff. LSU besides trailed Auburn by 17 points successful the archetypal fractional earlier this season, but battled backmost for the triumph connected the Plains. This comeback was adjacent much impressive. After falling down 17-3 successful the opening seconds of the 2nd quarter, LSU outscored Ole Miss 42-3 the remainder of the way. Quarterback Jayden Daniels has been 1 of assemblage football's astir improved players. He accounted for 5 touchdowns successful the triumph implicit Ole Miss. That's aft accounting for six touchdowns the week earlier successful the roadworthy triumph astatine Florida.
-- Chris Low
Takeaways
All glory to TCU's Hypnotoad
TCU is connected a teardrop (in the 2nd fractional anyway) implicit the past 2 weeks, aft finishing disconnected Kansas State, its 4th consecutive triumph implicit a ranked team. The Horned Frogs became conscionable the 2nd squad successful the past 20 seasons (along with 2016 Tennessee) to triumph aft trailing by 17-plus points against ranked teams successful consecutive games, which they did the week earlier against Oklahoma State arsenic well.
Dare we accidental there's a Hypnotoad who deserves a frog's stock of the credit?
First, a speedy Hypnotoad history: The animated amphibian is simply a character connected the amusement "Futurama," described connected the show's Wiki arsenic "a ample toad-like carnal that has ample oscillating multicolored eyes and emits a droning hum. His eyes glow each the time. The toad seemingly uses these arsenic a powerfulness of hypnotism connected surrounding radical and animals."
It besides claims that the frog tin "hypnotize radical into penning net articles astir ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD." Guilty arsenic charged, I guess.
The Hypnotoad has been a happening astatine TCU games successful caller years, being shown connected the video committee to rouse the Amon G. Carter faithful into a frenzy.
TCU hypnotoad posting is astir apt wherefore they're undefeated. Whoever made this video decidedly needs a raise. #gofrogs #DFWBig12Team pic.twitter.com/2GbdQdQ8e3
— Andrew Adams (@AAdamsWX) October 21, 2022But this week, it entered the mainstream erstwhile it appeared connected the hoodie of 1 Sonny Dykes, the TCU manager who has ne'er adjacent mislaid a azygous crippled there.
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— TCU Football (@TCUFootball) October 21, 2022The existent powerfulness of Hypnotoad's interaction came with astir 5 minutes near successful the 3rd quarter. With Kansas State starring TCU 28-24, facing a third-and-6 astatine the TCU 30-yard-line, the Hypnotoad made an quality connected the screen. The assemblage whipped into a lather, and the walk unreserved got to Wildcats QB Will Howard, who scrambled and was stopped abbreviated of the archetypal down. On the adjacent play, kicker Chris Tennant missed a 44-yard tract goal.
Four plays later, Max Duggan deed Quentin Johnson for a 55-yard touchdown walk to springiness TCU its archetypal pb of the day, 31-28. The Frogs (and the Hypnotoad?) ne'er looked back.
After the game, Duggan wore a "Frogs by 90" T-shirt to his postgame property league with a Hypnotoad connected it.
TCU QB @MaxDuggan_10 with the manner connection astatine his postgame presser! pic.twitter.com/IpMlwp15Zc
— Mark Cohen (@TCUCohen) October 23, 2022Coincidence. Hard to disregard it. ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD.
-- Dave Wilson
Ducks flying precocious ... but tin they soar higher?
If you caught immoderate of Oregon's season-opening, 46-point nonaccomplishment to Georgia and thought the Ducks weren't a squad worthy taking seriously, well, let the Ducks to reintroduce themselves arsenic the champion squad successful the Pac-12. Not lone has Dan Lanning's squad won each crippled since losing to his erstwhile team, but the Ducks besides took down league spirit of the week UCLA with easiness Saturday.
Every facet of the Ducks' crippled looked to beryllium rolling against the Bruins, adjacent peculiar teams. A surprise onside footwear successful the 2nd quarter turned the tide of the crippled and gave america a glimpse into however overmuch Lanning is coming into his ain aforesaid arsenic a first-time caput coach. Likewise, Bo Nix has made the astir of his cross-country determination from Alabama to Eugene. Under Kenny Dillingham, his erstwhile quarterbacks manager and existent violative coordinator, Nix has looked much comfy by the game. Surrounded by endowment astatine the accomplishment positions, he's embraced his relation and constricted his mistakes.
Plenty of games remain, including a pugnacious matchup against Utah, but for present the Ducks are firmly backmost successful the spotlight.
-- Uggetti
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