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USC, NC State, and More Thrive Amid College Football's Chaos

NCAA Week 3 - Fifteen years ago, college football witnessed one of the greatest strings of upsets in sports history. Then-FCS Appalachian State opened the festivities by stunning No. 2 Michigan, launching a season in which the second-ranked team lost eight times over the course of the year. Among the teams that reached that ranking, only to stumble against an unranked opponent, were California, USF, and Boston College; in the last two weeks of the season, Kansas and West Virginia held the position, but lost to rivals Missouri and Pitt. When the dust settled, the national champion was an LSU team that somehow made it back to No.