College Football Knockouts: Week 9

Ben Queen-USA TODAY SportsReminder: A knockout occurs after the losing team's last offensive play while within one score (8 points).

I saw a lot of clamoring during the day on Saturday that none of the games were good. Then, at night, I saw a lot of clamoring that the late games had more than made up for it. This morning, when I saw that Week 9 had nine games without a KO, the most since Week 2. Surely people just missed some good games early in the day.

Turns out two of the nine were on Thursday (Oregon-Arizona State and Buffalo-Miami (OH)). Four actually were at night. The other three either was close but low-scoring (Central Michigan-Akron), involved Auburn and the cynicism that comes with…