Through all of the off-the-field nonsense and drama it forces us to weather -- conference realignment and increasing rich-get-richer tendencies, debates over player compensation and recruiting calendars, recruiting itself, comical coach buyouts and increasingly silly coaching carousels, playoff expansion -- one thing remains certain: On the field, college football is still absolutely incredible, nonsense of the absolute best kind.
When two of your four best games of the season were among the last three games of the season, you know things finished on a pretty good note. The 2023 college football season gave us epic rivalry games, two classic College Football Playoff semifinals, a burst of excitement from Deion Sanders' Colorado and plenty of other classics. Yesterday, we walked through the No. 51-100 games of the season; today, let's work through the top 50.
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100. Oct. 21: Oklahoma 31, UCF 29
It ended up being a warning sign. Oklahoma managed to move to 7-0 despite trailing on three occasions and needing two early Nic Anderson touchdowns and a late 2-point stop to finally finish off the visitors from Orlando, Florida. But the Sooners' wobbliness wasn't temporary -- they would lose three of their final six games.