College football heroes, zeroes for Week 8: Clemson trending up, Miami going down

Many of school soccer’s high groups took this Saturday off, however there have been nonetheless loads of elite groups and impactful video games on the docket for the Week 8 schedule. Here is your take a look at this weekend’s winners and losers.

LSU: It has been robust to get a line on what this staff is. As anticipated in Brian Kelly’s debut season, it has been an up and down affair. However now the Tigers are sitting at 6-2 after dropping the hammer on No. 7 Ole Miss behind one other stellar effort from Jayden Daniels, who hit on 21 of 28 passes for two TDs and three extra scores on the bottom for 121 yards operating. When he has house, this offense can transfer on anybody.

Clemson: It wasn’t fairly, however the ACC favorites gained their third recreation towards a ranked convention opponent whereas shifting to 8-0 on the season and taking sole possession of first place within the Atlantic Division. However not with out a battle: Syracuse’s high 10 protection seemed the half, forcing 4 turnovers, and scoring a 90-yard TD off a DJU fumble earlier than Clemson mounted a critical second half comeback. That marks the second straight week this staff performed it shut towards an ACC staff and now comes a visit to Notre Dame after the bye week, however to date Clemson is doing nearly all the pieces proper because it fights for School Soccer Playoff consideration.

Marvin Harrison, Jr.: Again within the preseason, Harrison was statistically the No. 5 huge receiver on Ohio State’s roster by way of catches and manufacturing. However with Jaxon Smith-Njigba sitting out a lot of this season with an damage, Harrison has had the possibility to point out off. And he actually has, main OSU’s crazy-elite receiver room with 9 landing catches this season, and weekly bringing down catches that appear like they belong within the NFL, not the Huge Ten.

Iowa’s protection: Coming in, the Hawkeyes boasted elite defensive numbers, rankings seventh in complete manufacturing, third nationally permitting 9.8 factors per recreation, and third surrendering 154 passing yards per recreation. And for the primary half towards Ohio State, the unit carried out effectively towards the Buckeyes’ ferocious ability items, holding OSU to at least one landing within the first half and scoring its personal TD on a compelled fumble. However as tends to occur this season, Iowa’s full incapacity to maneuver the ball lastly wore its protection down and it ran out of gasoline after halftime because the Buckeyes outscored Iowa 28-0 after the break.

Tennessee’s offense: Anybody predicting the Vols would slip into autopilot after beating Alabama with UT Martin on deck was proved very mistaken on Saturday. Tennessee scored a program document 52 first-half factors, breaking the varsity’s earlier document of 49 again in 2000. It was Princeton Fant who broke the mark with an ideal TD move for Jalin Hyatt. School soccer’s No. 1 complete offense did not miss a beat this week with Kentucky up subsequent Saturday and Georgia after that.

Texas: The Longhorns simply maintain discovering methods to lose, together with immediately in a 41-34 recreation at Oklahoma State, the sixth loss for UT within the final eight of this collection, and the fifth lack of the Steve Sarkisian period during which the staff blew a double-digit second half lead. Texas was penalized 14 instances, OSU none, and Quinn Ewers grew to become the third quarterback since 2000 to throw the ball 49 instances in a recreation and full lower than 20 of these makes an attempt. Each time it appears Texas is about to take one other essential step ahead, it will get knocked two steps again.

DJ Uiagalelei: The Clemson quarterback had made such essential strides since final season’s 9 TD, 10 INT debacle, and his environment friendly, regular play helped propel the Tigers to an undefeated document and two assertion wins within the ACC. However towards Syracuse in a battle for first place within the division, the quarterback regressed, throwing two interceptions and dropping a fumble that went the opposite method for a 90-yard TD. All of which resulted in Uiagalelei getting benched in favor of Cade Klubnik. But it surely’s price noting that DJU, regardless of not fully residing as much as his potential, has nonetheless put up a fairly good battle.

Iowa’s offense: At this level, and at a number of factors prior to now, you need to simply marvel how Brian Ferentz nonetheless has a job. Your father being your boss helps, however the complete offensive unit that got here into Saturday rating dead-last in school soccer in complete manufacturing seemed each bit that unhealthy. Lack of coordination, no urgency, poor choices, and a gaggle of turnovers all doomed this offense once more, and there is not any actual progress in sight to construct on.

Syracuse: This was the second the Orange needed to make an announcement to the school soccer world that it belonged within the nationwide dialog. And for the primary half towards Clemson, it did, taking a lead due to that good defensive scoring play. However after the half, this staff turned off. Sean Tucker, one of many ACC’s most gifted operating backs, was hardly used, and Syracuse’s entrance safety was step by step worn down by Clemson’s ferocious entrance seven. 

Miami: Mario Cristobal’s honeymoon interval at Miami ended a while in the past, however this week discovered the Hurricanes dropping a recreation in one other humiliating method, dropping a 45-21 choice to Duke due to eight turnovers on Miami’s half. Three of these had been interceptions and 5 had been misplaced fumbles, and Duke took benefit of all of them. 

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