College football winners and losers from Week 11: Oklahoma blows their shot, Texas hits rock bottom

College Football Week 11 Winner: Fans for a glorious 5 minutes of upset potential

As the noon slate of games on Saturday kicked off, several of the high-profile teams in action were in matchups in which they were 30+ point favorites. Namely, Alabama vs. New Mexico State, Florida vs. Samford, and Clemson vs. UConn all figured to be blowouts. And in two of those cases, the end result played out as expected.

However, at the start of all three of those games, the heavy underdogs all had leads, giving fans a snapshot moment of pure upset euphoria.

Alas, none of those upsets were meant to be — even as hard as the Gators tried — when it was all said and done. But hey, we’ll always have those five minutes where the impossible looked hilariously in play.

College Football Week 11 Winner: Ohio State Buckeyes

Particularly after last week when Purdue handily knocked off then No. 3-ranked Michigan State, it felt like everyone and their brother (myself included) was in on the Boilermakers to come into Columbus and challenge an Ohio State team that, admittedly, had looked shaky whenever they’d been up against good teams this season.

Ryan Day’s team was up for the challenge on Saturday, though, putting a hurting on Purdue to the tune of a 59-31 victory that wasn’t as close as the final would make it seem.

The Buckeyes had their way with the Boilermakers in the way that everyone expected Ohio State to look when the season began. C.J. Stroud was just letting his all-world cast of receivers cook defenders all day long, the run game was gashing the Purdue defense, and the Buckeyes defense actually came up with big stops. This game felt as if it might be a legitimate turning point for OSU where they go from “will they flip the switch” to “oh damn, look out for the Buckeyes.”