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College football Week 8 takeaways: What we learned about Oregon, Pitt, Ohio State and more

Week 8 of the college football season is in the books, and with a little more than a week until the initial College Football Playoff rankings, things are still pretty cloudy. Here's what we learned in another entertaining weekend of action.

Oregon is hanging on

With ESPN College GameDay in Los Angeles for Oregon-UCLA, a brighter spotlight was on a pair of teams that had been trending the wrong way since inspiring early-season wins. Oregon went into the game as the No. 10 team in the AP poll but had looked mediocre, at best, since winning at Ohio State on Sept.