.David Hale, ESPN Team WriterSep 14, 2024, 06:14 PM ETCloseCollege football reporter.Joined ESPN in 2012. Grad of the University of Delaware.If college regulation football were a cartoon, there will possess been actually a moment final December, just after the board brushed off an unbeaten Florida Condition team from the playoff, when Mike Norvell would certainly possess ended this was actually as poor as factors could get, all while unconsciously standing underneath a piano perilously being elevated to a 20th-floor window.Of course, after Fla State was up to Norvell's former college, Memphis, 20-12 on Sunday, it's completely feasible the Seminoles would favor the piano to reality.Nine months ago, Fla Condition possessed the planet's sympathy-- at least the aspect of the world that do not shout "S-E-C, S-E-C" at wedding ceremonies, funerals and also little ones's gatherings. It was actually effortless to like that staff. It was actually a team that dealt with more challenging after shedding QB Jordan Travis, that gave all it must always keep winning, that overlooked its own shot at the playoff not as a result of its personal errors but because of the committee's whim.Editor's Picks1 RelatedNow, there is actually no sympathy. There is simply a strange mix of embarassment, stress as well as dark humor, like splashing a drink down the face of your pants.The named beneficiary of the committee's selection was Alabama, and also traits could possibly've quickly shifted toward a dismal 2024 for the Trend, too. They lost their championship game, swayed goodbye to the best trainer in the sporting activity's history, then viewed a departure of players right into the website, consisting of five that left behind for Tallahassee.And however, on the very same day Fla Condition hit a brand-new low point, Alabama stretched the very same muscle it thus typically performed under Chip Saban, annihilating Wisconsin 42-10 behind a five-touchdown efficiency from Jalen Milroe.In a more only world, Florida Condition could've made a little good karma after the outrage of its own playoff snub. In an even more fair planet, Alabama might, only the moment, be inflicted a bad hand.But college soccer has confirmed, repeatedly, it doesn't respect fairness, however it does possess one hell of a sense of humor.So in Madison, the Trend related to get down.Alabama players leap about throughout Dive Around pic.twitter.com/OytiNveT43u2014 Patrick Greenfield (@PCGreenfield) September 14, 2024 And in Tallahassee, Florida State prepares to pack it up as well as pack it in.For Alabama, the roster turn over only clearance for new celebrities, like freshman receiver Ryan Williams, that caught 4 receptions for 78 lawns and a touchdown in Sunday's win. Williams is actually simply 17-- born just 7 months prior to Saban coached his very first video game at Alabama, not old adequate to also don't forget there was a time something like an 0-3 begin would certainly be actually inconceivable at Florida State.For FSU, there's no crystal clear course forward. DJ Uiagalelei has actually been bad, the ground video game has mustered up little, the objectionable line that was actually meant otherwise be actually a stamina received manhandled by a Team of 5 plan, and the defense, which played its own finest video game Sunday, still hases plenty of holes. For the Seminoles, the only silver edging to derive from this awful start to the time is it might have lowered the course's media evaluation sufficient that it can easily get away from the ACC for a conventional exit cost as well as some Kohl's cash.Nine months ago, there could be a reasonable controversy about the comparison resumu00e9s of Alabama and Florida Condition. On Sunday, during commercial breaks of the Trend's clunk of Wisconsin, it was actually achievable to turn between adds for "9-1-1: Lone Star" featuring an extensive train derailment and also an FSU game featuring a much more horrible learn wreck.To witness what's happened Fla Condition while considering that the committee delivered its own judgment is tough to know, a barrage of ceaseless agony typically set aside for "Viewed" motion pictures or even small climate problems at LAX.But it costs thinking about just how totally incomprehensible it is actually for Alabama to become here, too-- 3-0 with a street win in Big Ten country just months after Saban's departure. Alabama has been actually the design for sustained greatness for a production, and that uniformity was actually commonly credited to Saban's relentlessness. Yet even he reached out to an aspect through which it was actually time for something brand-new, and yet Alabama continues plugging throughout-- one dominant succeed after another, as reputable as the sunrise.None of this particular is evidence the board got its choice right, certainly. That was final period-- a various crew, a various opportunity. Yet it is actually proof that in this chaotic sport, success is actually short lived and also chance often brushes past like a Florida Condition linebacker missing out on a handle at free throw line of scrimmage.And also at a place like Alabama, a system that has actually stood up defiantly versus the winds of improvement for 16 years currently, it is actually always far better to value the good things while you have all of them. Given that if there's everything our experts've learned from enjoying Fla Condition these past nine months it's this: It can regularly obtain worse.Jump to: LSU makes it through|Character shifts|Arizona's best staff The very first 56 moments of Saturday's video game against South Carolina was much from positive for LSU.A series of unique teams gaffes, two turnovers and some major operates through Gamecocks QB LaNorris Sellers had the Tigers playing catchup typically. South Carolina leapt bent on a 24-10 top, viewed LSU take in advance temporarily in the 4th one-fourth, at that point viewed Rocket Sanders explode for a 66-yard score.play1:20 Jumping block refutes LSU punt, establishes South Carolina TDMaurice Brown II blocks out the LSU punt, which sets up a Raheim Sanders touchdown to pad the Gamecocks' lead.With lower than four minutes to participate in, LSU routed by 4, and Brian Kelly had gone through all 6 stages of agony: Irritation, indignation, hostility, anger, inquiring to talk to the manager and also, lastly, evaluating the completion his players.But Garrett Nussmeier used to the saving along with his 29-yard conclusion to Kyren Lacy to jumpstart a 55-yard touchdown drive to put LSU up 36-33. South Carolina possessed one final gap at the gain, attempting a 49-yard basket as opportunity ended, yet it overlooked, giving Kelly a chance to commemorate a hard-earned gain before coming back to his workplace to watch movie as well as shout in to a pillow.Week 3 vibe shiftsTrending down: Finishing all your throwsThe excellent news for Michigan QB Davis Warren is actually every elapsed he included Michigan's 28-18 get Arkansas State on Saturday was actually caught.The bad news is actually, 3 of all of them were found by Arkansas State players.So, right here's where we are actually along with the defending champs: After decades rotating through a slide carousel of quarterbacks who succeeded their placement through locating a golden ticket under a Detroit-style pizza, the Wolverines were actually handled to 2 periods of J.J. McCarthy and believed possibly factors had transformed once and for all. Instead, Warren is balancing 6.1 yards-per-pass along with 2 touchdowns and also six selections with three games.Now, USC gets on deck next full week, as well as Michigan is left behind looking for an answer in between Warren or Alex Orji or to hope there's one more QB stashed in Jim Harbaugh's left locker behind those containers identified "signals for every opponent, 2020-2023." Trending up: UNLV's scenario for Pac-12 expansionMatthew Sluka led an 18-play, 75-yard goal drive that chewed 9:31 off the clock in the fourth quarter Friday night, and also UNLV dismayed Kansas 23-20. It was the Rebels' second win over an Energy 4 challenger presently this season after pouring Houston in the opener. Just how excellent is actually that? Getting In Sunday, Northern Illinois' distress of Notre Dame was the only various other Group of 5 draw an energy event foe.Like along with everything in Vegas, it is actually a little bit of skill-set and also a great deal of luck.play0:40 UNLV in some way generates outrageous fumble vs. KansasMatthew Sluka messes up the ball, yet in some way UNLV preserves things after the ball touches several Kansas players' hands.Still, it's secure to state Barry Odom has the Rebels peaking at the right time, with UNLV's purchases pitch to the expanding Pac-12 currently looking rather powerful: A huge market, a really good team, as well as access to myriad all-night snack bars. After that all Odom needs to have to do is take that Pac-12 payment in potato chips, wager all of it on black on a singular live roulette spin, double down pair of or three even more opportunities, as well as upsurge-- UNLV is playing with SEC money.Land of the rising Sun DevilsA year ago, Arizona was the darling of the college regulation football planet after a skylarking 10-3 period, while Arizona State was actually a laughing supply required to begin a carolers of battling quarterbacks possibly featuring a couple people they discovered waiting outside a Tempe In-N-Out Burger.What a difference a year makes.Arizona swayed goodbye to move coach Jedd Fisch, that left for Washington, as well as opened this time along with two unimpressive draw New Mexico as well as Northern Arizona just before falling to Kansas State 31-7 on Friday. It was actually Arizona's worst outrageous performance due to the fact that being shut out at Colorado in 2021. The Sunlight Devils, on the contrary, discovered a QB in Sam Leavitt as well as are actually using high after discontinuing Texas Condition on Thursday 31-28, starting 3-0 for the first time given that 2019. Arizona Condition is actually the surprise staff of 2024 until now (unless you count negative surprises, which Florida Condition wishes you do not), and also Dillingham's turnaround of a system left in mess after the Herm Edwards period ended exactly as every person stated it would certainly.