Week 8 Trophy: Box Score Lied Illinois beat Oregon 21-10 and lost the per-play battle: -0.109 net PPA in that game, and a 36.2% success rate to Oregon's 46.1%. The underdog won anyway. The scoreboard says Illinois, the efficiency says Oregon. #ChatCFB #CFB #Illini #GoDucks

Week 8 Trophy: Best Team Nobody Ranks Louisiana Tech. Shut out Old Dominion 26-0 with +0.545 net PPA per play, best of any winner outside this week's AP poll. ODU's 25.0% success rate was the week's lowest. Boston College was next at +0.486. #ChatCFB #CFB #LATech

Week 8 Trophy: Defense of the Week UCLA. Michigan State's offense averaged -0.355 PPA per play in that game, the lowest of any FBS-vs-FBS game this week, with a 28.6% success rate. Louisiana Tech's shutout of Old Dominion was right behind. #ChatCFB #CFB #GoBruins

Week 8 Trophy: Best Against the Spread Hawai'i. A 3-point favorite at Northern Illinois, won 56-21, covered by 32 at DraftKings. They're 2-6, so this is a spread story, not a season story. Boston College was second: a 6.5-point dog that won by 22. #ChatCFB #CFB #HawaiiFB

Week 8 Trophy: Biggest Upset by AP Rank UCF. Unranked, and it beat No. 2 BYU 39-31. The Knights had a 51.8% success rate to BYU's 39.1%. BYU fell from 2nd to 8th. By rank, Cincinnati over No. 8 Texas Tech was next. #ChatCFB #CFB #ChargeOn

Week 8 Trophy: Biggest Upset by Betting Line UL Monroe. Troy was a 13.5-point favorite at DraftKings, and the 1-6 Warhawks won 21-14. ULM's offense had a 36.5% success rate to Troy's 27.7%. App State over JMU, a 12.5-point dog, was next. #ChatCFB #CFB #WarhawkNation

Week 8 Trophy: Most Disappointing Team Texas Tech. No. 8 in the AP, a 10.5-point favorite at DraftKings, lost 37-24 at Cincinnati. That's 23.5 points worse than the number, the worst of any ranked team this week. #ChatCFB #CFB #WreckEm

Week 8 Trophy: Best Team Northwestern. 42-14 over Rutgers, and in that game the Wildcats posted +0.622 net PPA per play, best of any FBS winner this week. Their offense had a 55.2% success rate, and Rutgers managed 35.3%. #ChatCFB #CFB #GoCats

Florida still leads this series 22-14 since 1990, but all of that lead came before 2017. Florida went 21-6 through 2016. Georgia is 8-1 since and has won five straight. DraftKings has the Bulldogs at -11.5 Saturday.

Five different champs in five years is real, and 2026 is set up for more of it. Three teams are 3-0 in league play, four more have one conference loss, so 7 of 16 are within a loss of the lead in late October. Depth is the right word.

Favored in all seven games and 2-5 against the number is the Oregon story so far, with three outright losses as a 10-point favorite or bigger. The Northwestern line going from -7.5 to -3.5 says the market has stopped paying for the name.