Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college football, where Massachusetts’s season began and likely ended with a 41–0 loss Saturday:
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How bad was Tennessee (11) Saturday? Bad enough to lose to Kentucky by 27 points, which is its largest margin of defeat against the Wildcats since a 27–0 loss in … 1935. Last time the Volunteers lost by more than 27 to Kentucky was the first time the teams ever met, in 1893. So you could say this was a once-a-century calamity for Big Orange, but that would actually be understating it.