10 biggest disappointments in college football this season

Life is full of disappointments. College football is no different.

Being able to cope with disappointment is essential when it comes to being a college football fan. In no other mainstream sport is the regular season so important. A single bad quarter in Week 4 can effectively eliminate a team from playoff contention. Every blown lead matters. Every loss corresponds to a huge hit in the polls (well, unless you’re an SEC team). Every bad call has the potential to be ruinous.

This all-or-nothing pressure is part of what makes college football such a wonderful, frustrating and tense sport. With a week between games, bad losses sit and fester. You spend the week rewinding and re-watching the boneheaded play that cost your team the win. You stew and fume and then look up and notice that the season is half over, your team nowhere near playoff contention. Unless your team is putting together a miraculous unicorn of a season, you’re going to experience disappointment. Such is life when you follow college football.

This here is a look at ten of the biggest disappointments of 2015 college football season. Some of the entries are serious, others a bit more on the lighter side. Some are the result of unfair expectations and ridiculous hype, others the result of incompetency.

If your favorite team doesn’t appear on this list, don’t start gloating just yet. Disappointment is inescapable and inevitable, a force that can’t be stopped. It’s only a matter of time before it strikes the team you love.

(Note: there was originally a slide for the Tennessee Volunteers, but it was just too depressing.)

Next: 10. Pac-12 night games