Rivalry Week presented an extra dash of spice this week with happenings both on and off the field: games won and lost, coaches coming and going. There was plenty to choose from, but here’s a look at 10 things that caused more than a modicum of overreaction.

1. Ed Orgeron – Are you serious, Clark? Ed Orgeron? LSU AD Joe Alleva had months to make the home run hire. He fired Les Miles to get the jump on the rest of the nation, to scour the country to find the best coach available. And he supposedly wasted that time talking to only two coaches, pining away for one who turned him down the first time, then — spurned a second time — proceeding to drop the ball on the other, losing him to a Texas program in disarray. What does it say about the LSU administration when nobody outside of the current program wanted to come down to the bayou? Alleva fired a coach who had trouble scoring and couldn’t beat Alabama, and replaced him with a coach who got shut out by Alabama.

2. What happened to the SEC this year – If Florida … no, wait, when Florida loses to Alabama on Saturday, it will mean that Alabama finishes undefeated and the best of the rest of the conference has four losses. Florida would/will join a four-loss group that also includes Tennessee, Auburn, LSU and Texas A&M. One could argue parody; hot garbage has been tossed around as well.

3. Alabama greatest – Never mind the talk about whether or not this is the best Alabama team of all time; this is the greatest team of all-time, period. The last time Alabama gave up a touchdown, Justin Bieber was in diapers. Okay, maybe not that long, but it’s been a long time. Face it, nobody is going to beat Alabama this season. One would be hard-pressed to reach back through history and find a team that could turn this Tide.

4. Guice Heisman hype — start it – Miles was fired for other reasons, but maybe it should have been because he refused to use Derrius Guice as the Tigers’ featured back this season. All he’s done since Leonard Fournette went down with an ankle injury is write his name in the program’s record books. He broke the single-game rushing record on Thursday with 285 yards against Texas A&M. Two games before that he recorded the third-most yards (252 vs. Arkansas) in a single game in program history. He has two of the top three rushing games in the history of LSU football, a program predicated on the run. Given that next season he will be the featured back, there’s no telling what records he might smash.

5. What to do with Ohio State – We were told that Baylor and TCU didn’t make the first College Football Playoff because neither played/won a conference championship game. Now let’s see how the Playoff Committee explains away Ohio State making the playoffs despite not even winning its own division, much less the Big Ten Championship Game. The popcorn is popping.

6. What if Wisconsin wins – Even worse than the Ohio State quandary, what if Wisconsin wins the Big Ten Championship Game? Do the two-loss Badgers make the playoffs? They lost to Ohio State (and Michigan). How ironic would it be if the Big Ten champion, whether it’s Wisconsin or two-loss Penn State, were to miss the playoffs while the team that didn’t even make the championship game (Ohio State) gets in?

7. Most points … ever – In case you missed it, Pitt and Syracuse engaged in an exhibition of defensive futility on Saturday. Pitt won 76-61. The teams combined for the most points ever scored in an FBS game. It’s also the most exciting game ever played that nobody saw nor cared to see.

8. What are Notre Dame and Oregon waiting for – The writing is on the wall, what are these two programs waiting for? There’s no way Brian Kelly survives at Notre Dame, nor does Mark Helfrich at Oregon. Both teams finished miserable 4-8 seasons and can’t go on in the direction they are headed. Oregon has put together a search committee to find someone better before cutting Helfrich loose. Texas fired, then hired, in the same day. Are you listening, LSU?

9. Does anyone want to win the Heisman – It was a lock only a week or so ago, but Louisville’s Lamar Jackson seems to have spit the bit. Back-to-back losses in sub-par performances have not only dropped the Cardinals out of the playoff race, but could very well have yanked the Heisman out from under their quarterback. So who wants it?

10. Chaos – Every year it seems chaos rains supreme in college football when it comes to the postseason. This season has the makings of the biggest cluster mess of all-time. And that’s not even counting a potential Florida upset of Alabama. We already have the built-in mess with Ohio State all but guaranteed a spot in the playoffs despite not even winning its division. What if two-loss Wisconsin wins the Big Ten title? Does a two-loss Michigan team, that beat Wisconsin, get in over the Badgers — putting not one, but two non-conference champions in the playoffs? Does head-to-head mean anything anymore in college football? Wasn’t that the reason for the playoffs; to decide it on the field? So, the definitive way is to decide it on the field, except that what happens on the field doesn’t count? College football sure is a strange game. Perhaps that’s part of its allure?