Monday Tailgate: Lessons learned from Week 10 of college football

Not every game in college football ends with something crazy happening. It just seems that way this season.

As Arkansas and Nebraska added still more chapters to the story of improbable finishes in 2015, here are some more lessons we took from the first weekend of the November stretch drive.

The game of the day isn't always the one you think it will be.

How many of us were expecting to see Notre Dame and Pittsburgh or North Carolina and Duke slugging it out in the noon ET window Saturday, only to wind up glued to the finish of Florida-Vanderbilt? Then, while we expected to see some intense final moments in Oklahoma State-TCU or Clemson-Florida State, it was Arkansas-Ole Miss that provided the drama. Finally, there was Nebraska-Michigan State stealing the spotlight from "This Week's Game of the Century," Alabama-LSU. That's what the remote control is for, right?

We don't know anything — Pt. I.

The winner of the 2015 Heisman Trophy is no longer such a sure thing. It might still be Leonard Fournette, but the Alabama defense that held him to his lowest rushing output of the season — not to mention TCU and Trevone Boykin coming up empty at Oklahoma State — has left the field open to plenty of candidates.

We don't know anything — Pt. II.

The pool of legitimate contenders for the four-team playoff is shrinking. Even so, the quartet topping the official list this week as well as everybody's speculative group will mean about as much as, well, last week's projections. There are countless scenarios and possibilities that could alter the landscape considerably in the final weeks. Let's keep watching.

And finally — Going unbeaten is hard.

Really, really hard. Entering week 10, there were 11 FBS teams that had yet to taste defeat in 2015. Now, there are only six. The maximum number that can finish the regular season unscathed now is four.