The McShay Show

Week 7 Reactions: Five Top-Seven Teams Fall! Plus, Arch’s Texas Future, Sayin’s Injury Fallout, and Believing in BYU.

The McShay Show

Show Notes

It was one of the wildest Saturdays in college football history, as five top-seven teams went down in Week 7. Todd and Steve are here to make sense of the chaos and re-stack their top 12 heading into Week 8.

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(00:00) Welcome to The McShay Show!(01:13) The Greatest Saturday in College Football History(04:55) Miami survives in 2OT vs. Florida State(10:40) Ohio State defeats Indiana 19-15(26:15) Georgia falls to unranked Auburn(41:10) Ole Miss defeats Missouri 31-3(49:45) Tennessee lights up Alabama 26-10(59:45) BYU stuns Notre Dame 28-24(1:18:37) Chesney's got UCLA 6-0(1:23:36) Will Stein's commanding Kentucky(1:29:26) Teams outside of the Top 12(1:31:57) Who's to blame for Texas losing again?

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