Week 3 of the college football season did little to disrupt the sport's on-field hierarchy. The top eight teams in the AP poll won their games by an average score of 57-12, and the only two ranked teams that lost (BYU and Miami) did so on the road against other ranked teams (Oregon and Texas A&M).
In that way, this was about as orderly a weekend as you'll see. Why did it feel so wild, then? Because of everything else. Teams on the rebound, such as Penn State, Washington, Oregon and LSU, dropped hints that those rebounds have picked up speed.
Lots of games finished far away from the spread (Tulane upsetting Kansas State and UNLV blowing out North Texas, for example).
And… well… certain teams just kept not losing. Maybe the single wildest tidbit of this young season: Kansas, Duke, Rutgers, Indiana, Syracuse and Tulane all remain unbeaten.