College football winners and losers from Week 8
Week 8 was a good reminder that you should never feel totally comfortable as a college football fan. As Kirby Smart so eloquently put it a few weeks ago, “humility is a week away.” All 3 winners from last week’s iteration of winners and losers — Tennessee, BYU and Auburn — could have feasibly earned spots on the loser’s side this week. To keep things from turning stale, we’ll only feature one of those winners-turned-losers in Week 8. There’s a lot to discuss, so let’s jump right in. Here’s our winners and losers from Saturday’s action. You could argue that no in-season individual turnaround has been more impressive than LSU quarterback Sam Leavitt’s. Having already started the season on the wrong foot, the Tigers QB was liable to crash and burn when he suffered a hamstring injury that severely limited his mobility starting in Week 4. It’s strange to say, but that injury actually turned…
