We entered this past weekend in with a confluence of events that delighted fans from coast-to-coast as a marquee slate of games featuring ranked teams was paired with the return of the remaining few conference holdouts to this pandemic-induced season. There were the rare sights of a 9 a.m. PT local time kickoff in an empty and soulless United Airlines Field at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum combined with a cringe-worthy field storming in South Bend after the No. 1 team in the polls fell.
And "Mahalo" to our friends in the islands as we were gifted our first Hawaii home game of the year to push the college football Saturday time card past the 14-and-a-half-hour mark.