Inevitably whenever college football speculation meets reality, the teams that overperform will be balanced by those that don’t live up to their billing, fair or not. This piece focuses on the latter group with the first month of the campaign officially in the books.
To clarify, this list of September’s biggest disappointments will not include teams that lost one of the month’s marquee contests. In other words, the likes of Texas, Penn State, Michigan and others that are currently below their preseason US LBM Coaches Poll ranking will not be included here. We’ll also give twice-beaten Notre Dame a pass for now, even if those close defeats have complicated their at-large playoff case.
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No, these are the teams whose season’s might already be lost, with a long two months still to come. Here are the five biggest busts of September.
Preseason ranking: 6. Current record: 1-3.
