I'm a firm believer that college football teams change enormously over the course of a season; hell, that was my entire pitch behind this weekly feature. So the idea that mistakes by a team in early September should be held against them in early December is asinine. There is simply too much coaching and chaos and learning going on at this level of sports to pretend, Nick Saban teams aside, that student-athletes are programmable automatons who simply perform their preset subroutines on Saturdays and it's all a matter of whose processing power is better.
But.
We're six games in.