Welcome to This Week in Our Dumb Beautiful Sport, a weekly look at the chaos that reigns over the most perfectly imperfect world of college football.
As the first College Football Playoff rankings approach, the chaos meter is getting dialed up again. Mario Cristobal is choking, the ACC as a whole is imploding, Louisiana's governor is firing people, and Auburn is joining an already wild coaching carousel. Buckle up!
MARIO CRISTOBAL DOES MARIO CRISTOBAL THINGS
Here's a sentence from my first-ever Dumb, Beautiful Sport, after Miami (Fla.) beat Notre Dame: "They’re on track to make the College Football Playoff after this win, but I can confidently say I’d rather light myself on fire than root for a team coached by Mario Cristobal because I simply would not be able to handle this mess on a week-to-week basis.