Turns out. mid-October was the line of demarcation.
College football's coaching carousel ignited over the weekend, as Southern Mississippi fired Will Hall and East Carolina parted with Mike Houston.
It continued at the coordinator level, where Andy Ludwig and Utah separated while today, Coastal Carolina dismissed second-year offensive coordinator Travis Trickett.
On the field, Kirby Smart's Georgia squad shoved Texas out of the No. 1 spot, and more significantly, from the landscape of unbeaten FBS teams.
Texas fans shoved their drinking containers onto the field in the second half after officials botched a pass interference penalty and in the process drew stronger rebukes for their behavior from Texas, Georgia and the SEC office than did Smart a week before when he actually shoved Mississippi State quarterback Michael Van Buren Jr.
Elsewhere in college football, LSU and Texas A&M remain the SEC's only unbeaten teams in league play, and they battle this week. But LSU's win at Arkansas was thorough, and the Tigers continue to stretch the field vertically among the best teams in college football.
Tennessee, rallying back after being shutout in the first half of three consecutive games for the first time in 1963, kept alive its playoff hopes while compounding Alabama's misery. The Tide were heavily penalized, wasted red-zone scoring opportunities and committed too many turnovers.
The Vols still have a remaining road trip to No. 2 Georgia, but their schedule is quite manageable beyond that scope, with Kentucky and Mississippi State among the remaining SEC contests.
BYU keeps getting elite quarterback play from Jake Retzlaff, whose final-seconds touchdown pass kept alive the Cougars' undefeated start.
Army and Navy not only keep winning and climbing gradually in the national polls but also doing so with electric offenses.
Plus, is Indiana college football's most complete and underrated team?
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