Multiple undefeated teams fell this weekend, and other Top 25 favorites lost as well. Which teams suffered the three worst losses of Week 9?
There is no single ingredient that defines the worst losses of the week. Sometimes it is a matter of having a team against the ropes and failing to finish the deal. Sometimes it is a matter of getting outgunned at your own game. And then there are those cases when a team can’t get out of its own way.
We saw examples of each of these types of painful defeats this weekend, as three undefeated teams suffered their first losses of the year and other Top 25 schools tumbled down the ranking. Upsets proliferated around the country in another week of chaos that is beginning to mirror the havoc-wreaked season that transpired a decade ago in college football.
A team like South Florida feels like it has been playing with fire for much of the season. The Bulls stumbled at home against Houston this weekend, falling out of the ranks of the unbeaten. But even that wasn’t enough to qualify among the worst losses of the week.
So which teams did suffer the worst losses of Week 9? Keep reading for our picks of the most impactful defeats that took place on the last weekend of October.