Two-thirds of Season 3 are in the books. Now we find out who can finish. On this episode of Champions Corner Live, the crew closes the market on Weeks 7–9, checks the Heisman race, runs through the biggest headlines in the league, breaks every contender’s season into thirds, and looks ahead to a final stretch loaded with conference and CFP implications. And once again, the biggest headline belongs to the defending champion. 🏆 NORTH TEXAS DOES IT AGAIN. Tayson Hoffman turned the highly anticipated USF revenge game into a 42–14 beatdown, giving North Texas consecutive regular-season wins over Glen Crawford by a combined 67–21. After opening Season 3 at 0–2, the defending champs have ripped off seven straight wins and remain No. 1 in the Champions Corner Power Rankings. 🌲 STANFORD STILL HASN’T BLINKED. Genghis Khan sits 8–0 and No. 1 nationally, with wins over Clemson, Notre Dame, North Carolina and Wake Forest highlighting a résumé nobody in the league has been able to crack. The question is shifting from whether Stanford is elite to whether anybody can stop a perfect season. 🌊 TULANE HAS GONE FROM QUIET MONSTER TO COMPLETE LUNACY. Cedric Highsmith is 8–0, ranked No. 3 nationally, and leading one of the most statistically dominant teams in Champions Corner. The Green Wave have scored more than 400 points — including an 81-point explosion against UTSA — and now send the Heisman frontrunner into a closing gauntlet against Virginia Tech, North Texas and Stanford. 🐻 BAYLOR HAS COMPLETELY FLIPPED ITS SEASON. An 0–3 disaster has turned into a five-game winning streak. Chief Sendog is now 5–0 in Big 12 play, nationally ranked again and back in the conference championship conversation. Was the first third of the season the fluke — or is the five-game heater the fake rally? 🌾 KANSAS CAME BACK FROM THE DEAD. After falling to 2–3 and opening conference play 0–2, Coach J.O. has won four straight, capped by a signature upset of No. 5 BYU. Kansas is nationally ranked again, still alive for an at-large CFP path — and now heads directly into a massive showdown with Baylor. 🔥 SOUTH CAROLINA FINALLY TOOK A PUNCH. Damagucci went from 6–0 to 6–2 after losses to Oklahoma and LSU, then responded by walking into Tuscaloosa and beating Alabama while outgaining the Tide 414–273. The perfect season is gone. The possibility of a 10–2 SEC résumé is not. 🦡 WISCONSIN ANSWERED THE OHIO STATE QUESTION. Yamaha Beans beat the Buckeyes 42–28, followed it with another win over Michigan, and now rides a five-game winning streak while sitting 5–0 in Big Ten play. Another playoff run is very much alive. 🏅 THE HEISMAN RACE HAS A GREEN WAVE AT THE TOP. Tulane’s star receiver takes over the No. 1 spot after an absurd 18-catch, 326-yard, seven-touchdown performance, while Oklahoma, North Texas and Kansas all remain represented in the race. 📉 IOWA STATE KEEPS BEING GOOD ENOUGH TO LOSE. Father Shabraham is 0–3 against users, but those three losses have come by only 16 combined points. The Cyclones continue to move the ball and play competitive football — they just can’t seem to land the finishing blow. 📊 SEASON IN THIRDS. Who were these teams to start the year? Who did they become in the middle? And who will they be when everything is on the line? The crew projects the final four games for North Texas, South Carolina, Stanford, Tulane, Wisconsin, USF and the rest of the postseason contenders. Plus: Coach’s Wall Street, the Streak Exchange, CFP projections, Big 12 chaos, the American Conference chess match, and fresh user-game betting lines for Baylor–Kansas, Tulane–Virginia Tech, North Texas–Tulane, Kansas–Iowa State and Stanford–Tulane. And defending national champion Tayson Hoffman joins the show to talk North Texas, last season’s title run and the pressure of trying to do it again. The first two-thirds built the résumés. The final third decides who matters. Welcome back to Champions Corner Live — Season 3, Episode 5.
