Winning is a wonderful drug. Lots of happy people after each college football weekend.
But there are degrees of happy! The Odyssey can confidently pick the happiest team and happiest individual in the past 7 days:
The individual: Sawyer Robertson, Baylor QB
That Robertson threw for 5 TD’s as Baylor upset Texas Tech in Lubbock would be enough to make any QB happy. But, for Robertson, other circumstances made his performance much much sweeter. Robertson is a Lubbock product going to Coronado High School. He wanted to go to Tech but the ill-fated Matt Wells regime opted to recruit Behren Morton.
Robertson went to Mississippi State and transferred to Baylor. He started 4 games in 2023 but evidently did not sufficiently impress Dave Aranda. Baylor grabbed Toledo’s DeQuan Finn in the transfer portal to be QB2024. However, Finn got hurt to give Robertson his opportunity.
How magical it had to be for Robertson to hang 59 on the Red Raiders and saddle Tech with their first Big 12 loss. Even sweeter, the Tech starting QB was the aforementioned Moron. Must have been a hell of a homecoming celebration for Robertson and his family Saturday night in West Texas.
The team: Kennessaw State
How many winless teams beat undefeated teams this time of the year? Virtually never but it happened on Wednesday night as Kennessaw handed Liberty their first regular season loss in almost 2 years. The victory was so sweet that the Owls’ home fans celebrated with TWO field stormings. The first storming was premature as the refs put 1 second back on the clock. If ever any fan base deserved two stormings, it was Kennesaw State.