Black Friday college football has been known in the past for some crazy upsets. I recall years ago, Colorado stunning second-ranked Nebraska years ago. Today, we had another one with 4-7 Pitt knocking off the second-ranked Miami Hurricanes, 24-14, prying the door wide open for the Wisconsin Badgers to step into the top four next week if they beat Minnesota on Saturday afternoon. The loss for the Hurricanes likely means that the ACC will only get one team into the College Football Playoff regardless of next week’s outcome.

Miami came out sleepy against Pitt, and they got beat throughout the whole game by a true freshman. Malik Rozier Jr. was off the entire game, and the Hurricanes did not run the ball at all. They nearly got beat last week then this week, Pitt took them down. This is huge implications for the College Football Playoff. Miami-Clemson is a de facto play-in game, instead of potentially seeing two ACC teams in the top four. Although, Clemson needs to be careful against South Carolina on Saturday night because if they lose, there’s a real chance that the ACC gets shutout.

This is also exactly how Wisconsin wanted the weekend to start for them. They know that if they win, it’s likely they are a top four team heading into the Big Ten Championship. Now, I still think Wisconsin needs to win that game, and they will unlikely be in as a one-loss team unless shit gets really crazy in the next two weeks. I don’t think this tightens up Wisconsin by any means for Saturday either. If anything, this should give them a little more something to play for which is a good thing.

We’re a long way from being done with college football this weekend. So much can happen from now until the dust is settled late on Saturday night.

Charlie.