Greetings, BBN!
Arizona, our Top State last week, ran it back and dominated all its challengers once again. The Arizona Wildcats rolled Baylor at home 41-17, and the Arizona State Sun Devils blew by Colorado
on the road 42-17. Back-to-back 2-0 weeks have both teams rocking heading into their Rivalry Week game against each other in Tempe. In the rest of the country, there weren’t many dramatic results. Most of the top teams took care of business against lesser competition, with few upsets outside of Illinois’s stinker in Camp Randall and the end of Georgia Tech’s ACC and CFP campaign at the hands of the Pitt Panthers. The states of Illinois and Georgia might not be celebrating much college football success after Week 13, but New York is trying to move on from an absolutely disastrous week that left them winless and walloped.
The Bottom State: New York
The Empire State only has three FBS schools: Buffalo in the MAC, Army in the American, and Syracuse in the ACC. While not contending for national titles, usually those teams are having respectable seasons. In Week 13 however, they went 0-3 in ugly fashion. Buffalo went down at home by 17 points to Miami-Ohio, and Army lost at home on a late field goal to 3-7 Tulsa. But worst of all, Syracuse went to South Bend, trailed 35-0 after the first quarter, and got completely demolished 70-7 in a game that could’ve been 100-7 if the Fighting Irish wanted that. Ouch!
The Top State: New Mexico
The Top State this week is The Grand Canyon State’s next-door neighbor. The Land of Enchantment’s Lobos and Aggies swept their competition in Week 13 for some hard-fought conference road wins. New Mexico shot down the Air Force 20-3, and New Mexico State went to UTEP and outdueled the Miners 34-31. Neither school has it easy playing in small conferences in a sparsely populated state way out West, but in Week 13 the whole state got to celebrate. That’s why New Mexico is the Top State of Week 13.
