College Football’s 5th Quarter: Week 3 saw few surprises

Week 3 of the 2018 college football season saw few surprises. Here are five takeaways from a week where the national powers held on to their throne.

I predicted my fair share of smaller programs knocking off the big powers in my reasons to be excited post from earlier in the week. Boy was I wrong. The big boys held on to their place in college football supremacy while the little guy went back to where he belonged. This was never more evident than with Boise State and Oklahoma State which turned into a near route at the end of the final whistle.

In Toledo, the Miami Hurricanes blew through Ohio and the Rockets student section. Down in Arlington, Texas, a weird streak of Ohio State never losing in the state where everything is bigger kept on rolling and Alabama wouldn’t be touched by Ole Miss besides a single early touchdown throw.

Iowa State couldn’t get back the same luck they had against Baker Mayfield and the Sooners in 2017 against Kyler Murray in 2018, while Utah disappointed at home against a struggling Washington Huskies squad. Coach O and LSU are sitting as an undefeated after the Tigers have knocked off two top-10 teams in three weeks of football.

Here are my five takeaways from Week 3 of the 2018 college football season.