Here we are, halfway through the college football regular season, and it seems like it was just Labor Day weekend, when we had not yet remembered that this sport is an all-too-quick 14-week sprint toward an interminable month of waiting for the College Football Playoff. Still, by the end of October the selection committee’s first rankings will be out, and there’s something to be learned from that group’s novel idea of waiting until deep into the season to start ranking teams: we’ve covered a lot of ground and learned a lot of lessons since early September. Seven weeks in, it’s clear some storylines remain just as central to the discussion as they were last year: Clemson, Nick Saban, Ohio State, UCF.
Midseason Superlatives: The Best, Worst and Weirdest of the First Half
