The Tide vs Dores game is something that will remain in the history of CFB as the most unexpected one. A team that had a 0-60 record against the top 5 teams in CFB went against a monster that vandalized Kirby Smart and his boys. Vanderbilt came out on top and Kalen DeBoer and Co. were lost in translation. The only good part to come out of that game is the fact that the underdogs have also got what it takes to dethrone the best and that is exactly what even HC Matt Rhule explains.

On the latest Nebraska Cornhuskers press conference, Rhule drops a blunt reality check regarding the modern era of college football. “It goes back to what I said off the training camp of… Looking at the schedule before the season and saying what game is reasonable and games are hard, is not true and it’s not the way of college football anymore,” Rhule mentioned. The current landscape has changed so much that it is hard to believe what some of these underdogs are doing.

Most of the credit goes to the NIL landscape. “The plural transfers and NIL, it’s changed all of it,” Rhule notes. You gotta understand that almost every team right now has an A-grade player who can change the game in seconds. Back in the old days, this wasn’t the scene with CFB.

Right now, grabbing solid starters from the portal has become much easier. This has allowed coaches to build rosters with players who have an amazing presence on the turf. Even if someone does lose out on a player due to an injury or something else, they will still have a solid backup to take the helm.

The Bama-Vandi game wasn’t the only upset of this season. Take the Volunteers and Arkansas game. Can you imagine a team that is in the 8th rank of the AP Polls losing to a team like Arkansas? The Vols have one of the strongest rosters this season and yet the Razorbacks brought it home with a 19-14 win. Both the Vandi and the Razorbacks games marked historic wins with 2 top 5 teams biting the dust.

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Maybe we have given the top dogs a little too much credit. When Georgia almost lost to the Wildcats in a close 13-12 game, it should’ve been the main reality check that the teams sitting on top of every list out there are slowly faltering.

Even the SF game had Bama fans biting their nails. The Bulldogs and their offense still need a ton of work. The Wildcats did expose this, but the Tide finalized it. And coming to Bama, they gotta switch up the defense. Even during the Bulldogs game, Bama’s defensive line started to falter during the 3rd and 4th quarters.

With this, probably being the wildest year of college football history, we genuinely cannot wait for future shockers and new underdogs. Vandi, Razorbacks, Trojans, and Wildcats are turning a heck lot of heads. With Bama and Vols getting dethroned, could the same phenomenon trickle down to the current No.1 team in CFB (Texas Longhorns)? Do let us know what you think.