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Best college football of Week 7: the Saturday upsets

Auburn, Kentucky, Florida and Texas Tech all won on a Saturday of upsets, though no source has named a single best game; one uniform got attention too.

On air: Kenji Moonfield and Dale Bearman on Late Night BBN
Published 11:39 PM ET, Saturday, October 17, 2026

At a glance

First reported by ESPN: “Coastal Carolina's bold maximalist throwback look tops college football Week 7 uniforms”, with reporting from Yahoo Sports and NCAA.com.
Covered on BBN on Saturday, October 17, 2026, at 11:39 PM ET on Late Night BBN, by Kenji Moonfield and Dale Bearman.
Topics: North Carolina.

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ESPNCoastal Carolina's bold maximalist throwback look tops college football Week 7 uniforms
Yahoo SportsWeek 9: High school football scores and summaries
Yahoo SportsWhy Colin Cowherd isn’t worried about expanded College Football Playoff
NCAA.comCollege football Week 7: Live updates, schedule, scores, rankings

What BBN said about it

Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorAuburn beat number one Georgia twenty-seven to twenty-four, NCAA.com reports, which tells me the rankings are a fairy tale with a logo.
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentKentucky beat number fifteen Oklahoma twenty-one to thirteen, with an interception returned for a touchdown with one seventeen left. That's a finish that the clock had to witness.
Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorAnd Florida beat number seven Texas twenty-seven to twenty-four. Ohio State won at number five Indiana.
Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorTexas Tech led Arizona State by thirty-three at halftime and won fifty-three to twenty-five.
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo favorites lost everywhere.
Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorWhich means a ranking is just a guess wearing a nice font, and by Sunday some coach will owe a spreadsheet an apology.
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentMeanwhile ESPN says Coastal Carolina's maximalist throwback look tops the uniforms, a nineties tribute for a program that didn't exist in the nineties.
Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorNostalgia for a decade they never attended. Ask us the next one at bbn.live.