5 Overrated College Football Storylines: Is Texas Really THAT Good? Oklahoma? Nebraska? Miami? Georgia?

After a little over three weeks of the college football season the opinions are being formed, the rankings are settling in, and people are starting to believe the hype when it comes to team that keep winning.

Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Miami, and Georgia are all 3-0, but in very, very different ways. Are any of these teams really that good, at least compared to the hype for each one?

Texas and Georgia are in the No. 1 national title mix, and Miami has already been handed the ACC Championship.

Oklahoma is a bit of an unknown still, and, Nebraska is 3-0 and just happy to be back among the living, at least for now.

So in a special edition of 5 Overrated Things, are these five teams really overrated, and what's the best guess for each of them going forward?

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5. Is Nebraska any good?

Who cares? If you’re a Nebraska fan, and your program is supposedly a blue-blood superpower - at least it was a up until about ten years ago - your team is 3-0 for the first time since 2016.

(That can’t be right. As someone of a certain age … really? Nebraska?)

The Huskers have a marvelous young quarterback in Dylan Raiola, a strong coaching staff, a great defense, and one of the squishiest of soft schedules anyone could possibly ask for in a Power Four conference.

Is Nebraska any good?

Ooooooooh, it beat UTEP, Northern Iowa, and a Colorado team that really, really, really isn’t good at college football, at least compared to 1/19th of the attention.

Illinois, at Purdue, Rutgers, at Indiana. That’s next, and there’s still UCLA and a blah Wisconsin to face.

Best guess? Nebraska will have a fight with Illinois this week in a 50/50 game, lose at Ohio State and USC, and lose one other game somewhere.

The Huskers will go to a tasteful bowl game against a team playing its backups after most of the good guys bolt, and coming off a 10-3 season they’ll be the media darlings of 2025.

Let’s try this again with another team from a bygone era …

4. Is Miami any good?

Unlike Nebraska, which is probably a good team made to look better by its schedule, Miami has the talent and also has the nicest, easiest schedule humanly possible.

The toughest game is at Louisville.

Blowing out Florida doesn’t seem like any big deal, and whacking around Florida A&M and Ball State isn’t a thing, but Mario Cristobal put together a great starting 22 that might just get though this regular season 11-1.

It’s a Mario Cristobal team; it’ll biff somewhere in mid-November, like at Georgia Tech - and then the hype will be off the charts.

Best guess? Miami splits the road games against Louisville and Georgia Tech, narrowly avoids a brain-cramp somewhere - like at Cal or Syracuse - and gets to the ACC Championship where it loses to Clemson, but still makes the expanded College Football Playoff.

(The CFP committee will watch the Florida State game in get all squishy about an easy Hurricane win.)

Okay, how about ANOTHER super-power program …

3. Is Oklahoma any good?

Considering it’s 13th in the Coaches Poll and 15th in the AP, yeah, it’s good, but it might literally be overrated.

This one’s a little harder because - at least at the moment - Oklahoma has a bad combination of things to worry about. It had an easy schedule so far and it’s not playing all that well.

It’s 3-0, but it can’t seem to hit a third down play, the passing game is sputtering, and that was against Temple, Houston, and Tulane.

Reality is about to come to breakfast this week. The O in OU had better be ready to rumble with Tennessee up next and the Rivalry against Texas coming after a trip to Auburn.

Best guess? Oklahoma rises up and wins enough to have a decent year - there’s still a layup against Maine coming - but …

Tennessee, Texas, South Carolina, at Ole Miss, at Missouri, Alabama, at LSU (and I left out that date at Auburn).

The Sooner defense is good, but the offense had better come up with more than 325 yards per game in a huge hurry or this schedule screams 8-4 at absolute everything-goes-right best.

2. Is Georgia still that good?

Yes, it is. Move along.

Okay, okay, the 13-12 win over Kentucky didn’t inspire a ton of confidence, but we all know how this team rolls.

Remember when it sputtered a tad against South Carolina in Week 3 of last year, and had problems with Missouri over the last two seasons, and didn’t really show up against Kent State in 2022?

Best guess? It’ll drop a date against a BRUTAL slate - like, maybe, at Ole Miss, or at Alabama in two weeks, or against Tennessee - but it’ll get to the SEC Championship, win it, and be the two seed in the expanded College Football Playoff.

Oh yeah, and the Dawgs also play at …

1. Is Texas really No. 1 good?

I can’t get the idea out of my head that it’s Texas, and it’s a Steve Sarkisian team, and the version of both of those that showed up with an unfathomable performance for about 57 minutes against Washington in the College Football Playoff will arrive at a very, very inconvenient time.

I’m ready for Manning-mania to kick in, I do believe he’s absolutely the real deal, I also believe that Quinn Ewers is special, and this Longhorn team is FAST, but America … bubby …

UTSA IS NOT GOOD. At least it’s not this year. Do NOT base your Texas belief system on what happened in the 56-7 win on Saturday.

And shhhhhhhh, Michigan has a whole slew of problems, too.

I know, I KNOW. I’ll take on this all by myself, but remember, the team that was so good at Alabama last year lost to Oklahoma, should’ve lost to Kansas State, really should’ve lost to TCU, almost lost to Iowa State, and …

Best guess? Texas beats Oklahoma but splits the Georgia and at Texas A&M showdowns, and totally whiffs somewhere else along the way - like, at Arkansas on November 16th.

It’ll make some noise in the College Football Playoff this time around, though.