It might be appropriate to say that Week 8 was the first "normal" college football week of the 2020 season, although "normal" takes a different meaning these days. 44 FBS vs. FBS games were played on Saturday as the Big Ten and Mountain West conferences began their seasons.
While the slate featured only two contests between ranked teams, it did have plenty of weird games. A useful heuristic for the general insanity of a college football game is comparing teams' yards per play and their turnover margin. If the final score tends more towards the yards per play disparity, then a team simply got beat, most of the time.