College Football Week 8 Recap - Texas tops Ole Miss, BYU & Texas Tech Fall + USC Disaster

Indiana survived Michigan in overtime, BYU and Texas Tech both went down, USC scored just seven points at Wisconsin—and Week 8 somehow made the College Football Playoff picture even harder to untangle. Galen Clavio and Matt Blaszka break down another chaotic Saturday, beginning with the idea that may define this entire season: survive and advance. BYU couldn’t do it, falling in double overtime at UCF just one week after beating Notre Dame, while Cincinnati stunned Texas Tech and Utah rallied past Houston. In one afternoon, the Big 12 went from looking like a possible multi-bid CFP league to a much more complicated race. Then comes the Big Ten. Wisconsin embarrassed USC 24-7, producing one of the worst offensive performances of the Lincoln Riley era and raising serious questions about Riley’s future. Indiana, meanwhile, survived an old-school defensive slugfest at Michigan, winning 13-6 in overtime despite its worst offensive performance of the season. Galen and Matt also break down Minnesota-Iowa, UCLA’s continued rise, the increasingly strange Big Ten championship race and how Ohio State’s quarterback situation could affect everything down the stretch. In the SEC, Texas survives Ole Miss 34-27 after nearly blowing a 21-point halftime lead, South Carolina knocks off Tennessee and LSU handles Auburn. The guys dig into what those results say about Texas, Arch Manning and an SEC hierarchy that remains difficult to trust. Texas’ win over Ole Miss was confirmed by the schools’ official box scores. The show also looks at the Group of Six playoff race, names its Teams of the Week, examines the latest round of coaching firings and asks how many major jobs could unexpectedly open this offseason. Finally, Galen and Matt unveil their Week 8 Merit Poll before closing with football-weather scenes from Montana State and Appalachian State. Subscribe to Football Weather for smart, analytical and conversational national college football coverage throughout the season. ⏰ Timestamps 00:31 Week 8 chaos and the “survive and advance” season 08:03 BYU-UCF and a disastrous weekend for Big 12 CFP hopes 24:54 USC collapses at Wisconsin — what happens to Lincoln Riley? 34:05 Indiana survives Michigan in an overtime rock fight 49:53 The Big Ten title race gets increasingly strange 52:56 Texas-Ole Miss, South Carolina-Tennessee and SEC chaos 65:50 Teams of the Week + the Group of Six playoff race 68:18 Coaching firings, hot seats and the Week 8 Merit Poll