Time is unflinching and unstoppable. Not unstoppable like the movie Unstoppable, they stopped the train in that one, so the whole premise of the movie was misleading. Not unstoppable like my use of obscure movie references. Time is unstoppable like Oregon’s freefall into obscurity, or the continuous unstoppable flow of bad calls made by Pac-12 Refs. Time cares about you as much as [insert Presidential Candidate you dislike] cares about honesty. Because time is cruel and can’t be contained, half of the college football season has passed us by, never to return again.
Midseason is a useful time to reevaluate the goals each team had coming into the season.