2021 Week 3 wrap-up

 Oh hi there.  We're a little late getting started on the weekly wrap-ups, and there's already some significant action in the books for college football this year.

Overall, as the sport bounces back from the odd COVID season of 2020, it looks like everyone is a little rusty.  Well, Alabama is still chugging along, ruining the fun for everyone.  But almost everyone else has shown some weakness.  We're just a few upsets away from another 2007-like season.

Reminder that the conference races only count conference games.

ACC Wheel of Destiny

Divisions are back and Notre Dame is out again, but the ACC looks like it could be up for grabs this year.  Clemson is not the dominant juggernaut that they have been the past decade.  FSU looked promising in week one with a close loss to Notre Dame.  But then they lost to an FCS team.  I held out on making any opinions as I remembered 2010 VT (starting 0-2 including an FCS loss), but after they lost to Wake Forest, I'm sticking the fork in FSU.  The Coastal could be more wide open than expected since UNC opened the season with a divisional loss to VT.  But VT still needs to fire Brad Cornelson.

Atlantic
Controls destiny:
-Wake Forest (1-0) has a tiebreaker over FSU.
-Clemson (1-0) has a cross-divisional win.

Not yet playing:
-BC, Louisville, NC State, Syracuse

Needs help:
-FSU (0-1) needs two WF losses.

Coastal
Controls destiny:
-VT (1-0) has a tiebreaker over UNC.
-GT (0-1) has a cross-divisional loss.

Not yet playing:
-Duke, Pitt, and Miami

Needs help:
-UNC (1-1) needs two VT losses, but has a tiebreaker over uva.
-uva (0-1) needs a UNC loss.

SEC
I respect the hell out of Nick Saban for what he's accomplished, but damn is Alabama just making college football boring.  I'm firmly in the camp right now that any Alabama loss is good for the sport.

East
Controls destiny:
-Georgia (1-0) has a tiebreaker over SC.
-Kentucky (1-0) has a tiebreaker over Mizzou.
-Florida (0-1) lost a cross-divisional game.

Not yet playing:
-Tennessee, Vandy

Needs help:
-SC (0-1) needs two UGA losses.
-Mizzou (0-1) needs two Kentucky losses.

West
Controls destiny:
-Alabama (1-0) has a cross-divisional win.

Not yet playing:
-Auburn, LSU, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Texas A&M, Arkansas

Big Ten (B1G)
East
Controls destiny:
-Maryland (1-0), Michigan State (1-0), PSU (1-0), Ohio State (1-0) all have cross-divisional wins.
-Indiana (0-1) has a cross-divisional loss.

Not yet playing:
-Michigan, Rutgers

West
Controls destiny:
-Iowa (1-0) has a cross-divisional win.
-Illinois (1-1) has a tiebreaker over Nebraska.
-Minnesota (0-1), Wisconsin (0-1), and Northwestern (0-1) have cross-divisional losses.

Not yet playing:
-Purdue

Needs help:
-Nebraska (0-1) needs an Illinois loss.

Pac-12
North
Controls destiny:
-Stanford (1-0) has a cross-divisional win.
-Washington State (0-1) has a cross-divisional loss.

Not yet playing:
-Oregon, Washington, Oregon State, Cal

South
Controls destiny:
-USC (1-1) has only played cross-divisional games.

Not yet playing:
-Arizona, Arizona State, UCLA, Colorado, Utah

Big 12
Controls destiny:
-Baylor (1-0) has a tiebreaker over Kansas
-Kansas (0-1) lost to Baylor.

Not yet playing:
-Texas, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Kansas State, Iowa State, TCU, Texas Tech, WVU