Thrill of the Game
The Saturday Slant — Week 3: The Backyard Brawl is Back, Vols in the Swamp, and More
To echo the intro from last week, we’re still in that weird part of the college football calendar where we don’t know a ton about, well, almost anyone. We have started to get some big games that have been instructive in how we view this season — the fine folks down in Austin, for example, can and should feel like they have a proven College Football Playoff contender after last week’s win over Alabama — but for the most part, a whole lot of teams have been building towards the start of conference play.