According to USA Today, Louisville and Tennessee are two of college football’s biggest losers in week 13.
The list also includes SEC teams Arkansas, Ole Miss and Georgia.
Here is an excerpt:
Louisville: Just a couple weeks ago, the Cardinals were talking about possibly sneaking into the playoff as a second ACC team. Players, in fact, were Tweeting about the perceived disrespect of being ranked fifth and promising to show the world Louisville belonged. It’s hard to know what changed since then, but Louisville basically imploded the last two weeks of the season with a blowout loss to Houston and Saturday’s 41-38 shocker at home to Kentucky.
It’s bad enough that Louisville lost the Governor’s Cup for the first time since 2010 as a 28-point favorite, but quarterback Lamar Jackson may have loosened his grip on the Heisman Trophy with three interceptions and a late fumble that set up Kentucky’s winning drive. This game may also have cost the Cardinals a trip to the Orange Bowl if Florida State ends up ranked ahead of them.
Tennessee: The Vols’ high hopes for the 2016 season ended in a 45-34 loss to Vanderbilt. Not to take away anything from the Commodores, who closed the regular season on a big high, and at 6-6, after a very slow start. Tennessee ends its regular season, one in which the Vols were expected to win the SEC East, at 8-4 (4-4 in the conference) and just about where they were a year ago. At least, as Butch Jones said earlier in the week, they are Champions in Life.
