Football Outsiders · Sep 14, 2020
OFI: College Football is Back, and It Brought Upsets
College football is back, and the weekend featured a few games of less-than-stellar football, but in the words of the great Bruce Springsteen: "You ain't a beauty, but hey you're alright." Football is football, and in the first full week back for the sport, we learned a valuable lesson: the offseason matters. This weekend featured a couple of upsets in which a more talented yet less experienced team fell to a solid upstart opponent, highlighting just how profoundly disruptive and weird our long 2020 offseason has been. Teams who rely on development, chemistry, and February weight rooms are stumbling out of the gate, and college football uncertainty is at an all-time high.
