Oops Saturday

 So what do we call this, now that Dabo Swinney has taken his Clemsons back to South Carolina in sandwich bags? Now that Rocky Top has become a Cropped Top?

I guess "Why Am I So Cold All Of A Sudden? Because I'm Exposed!" Saturday might work.

Also, "Arrested For Fraud" Saturday.

Or maybe just plain old "Oops!" Saturday.

In any case, that was some revealing stuff that went down in South Bend and Athens, Ga., yesterday, when one team everyone suspected was suspect and another everyone figured was legit got their keisters handed to them. (And, yes, Brian Kelly beat Nick Saban two months after sending his first LSU team onto the field. But 'Bama had already been exposed as Not-Quite-'Bama, so Karpetbagger Kelly's big W doesn't quite make this list.)

Tennessee and Clemson, however ...

Oh, you bet.

Tennessee swaggered into Athens unbeaten and ranked No. 1, and then No. 3 Georgia said "Hold my beer." The Bulldogs bully-ragged the nation's top-scoring team like it was Directional Hyphen Tech State, shutting down the Volunteers fleet receivers and reducing marquee quarterback Hendon Hooker to utter helplessness.

The Vols, who came in averaging almost 50 points per, squeezed out just a couple of puny field goals until garbage time, when they finally cracked the end zone to make the final score 27-13. By then the real No. 1 had unmasked the imposter, it was raining cats and Dawgs in Sanford Stadium, and the home crowd didn't care because it was already well into the Mass Libation portion of the evening.

A few hours later and several hundred miles north, it was Clemson's turn to display the Emperor's new clothes.

All dressed up as No. 4 in the first College Football Playoff poll, the Clemsons marched into Notre Dame Stadium, only to hear Marcus Freeman's unranked Irish exclaim "Hey, look! They're naked!" 

The final was 35-14, Notre Dame, and the Irish didn't do anything special to get there. They blocked a punt to set up one touchdown, got a 96-yard pick six from freshman Benjamin Morrison for another, and the rest of the time just lined up and threw their three-headed running back creature at one of the nation's top rushing defenses, daring it to stop them. 

It couldn't.

Instead, Logan Diggs gashed Clemson for 114 yards, Audric Estime sliced through them for 104, and the Irish rolled. Clemson didn't score until there were 10 minutes to play, and the Irish responded by going through the Tigers like a turnstile, grinding six minutes off the clock on an 11-play drive that ended with Drew Pyne's touchdown pass to Michael Mayer.

Ballgame. And one of those Notre Dame Moment deals for Freeman, who started 0-2 but has now beaten two ranked teams in a row. 

Pretty sure the Irish themselves will be ranked this week.

Pretty sure the CFP's gonna look a whole lot different, too.