In one manner of thinking, the BCS and the College Football Playoff transformed college football from a regional to a national sport. The outcome of the Michigan-Wisconsin game Saturday has an impact on the Stanford-Washington winner and every other school in the hunt for one of four playoff berths. But with so many of its heroes, college football remains regional. Witness the deaths this week of former Nebraska offensive line coach Milt Tenopir, 76, and Iowa quarterback Randy Duncan, 79.Tenopir was the foreman of the assembly line that cranked out one All-American after another during head coach Tom Osbornes glory years. Duncan led the Hawkeyes to the 1958 Big Ten championship and the Rose Bowl, and finished second in the Heisman vote to Army back Pete Dawkins. Green Bay selected Duncan with the first pick of the 1959 NFL draft. He spurned the Packers for three years in the CFL, after which he went to law school. But he was forever a Hawkeye hero.If you want to know how current and former Huskers players felt about Tenopir, read Dirk Chatelains story in the Omaha World-Herald about the coachs last days. Prepare to be choked up.1. It has been 14 years since weve had three games that matched AP top-10 opponents, and the list of those games illustrates how much the power structure has changed since 2002. No. 1 Miami defeated No. 9 Florida State, the Hurricanes 28th consecutive victory in a string that reached 34; No. 2 Oklahoma defeated No. 3 Texas 35-24, the third of five straight Sooner victories in that rivalry, and remember how Mack Brown couldnt win the big one? He put that canard to rest in 2005; and No. 6 Georgia, under second-year coach Mark Richt, beat No. 10 Tennessee 18-13 in a game that served as a springboard for the Bulldogs to end their longest SEC championship drought (20 years) in school history.2. Likewise, two of this weeks three top-10 matchups could have a lasting impact on this season. If No. 3 Louisville wins at No. 5 Clemson, the Cardinals will have beaten their top two competitors in the ACC Atlantic (they embarrassed Florida State 63-20 two weeks ago). Given Oregons struggles, the game between No. 7 Stanford and No. 10 Washington will anoint the front-runner in the Pac-12 North. But since No. 8 Wisconsin and No. 4 Michigan are in different divisions of the Big Ten, the outcome of their game will take a back seat to the teams head-to-head matchup against whichever divisional foe challenges them.3. One last note about the demise of LSU head coach Les Miles, fired because the Tigers couldnt keep up with the Alabama dynasty coached by his predecessor, Nick Saban. Contrast Miles unwillingness to change the Tigers offense to the evolution that the Crimson Tide has undergone during the Saban Decade. Saban has gotten smaller and quicker on defense. He has said that Terrence Cody, the 6-foot-4, 345-pound two-time All-American defensive tackle, wouldnt fit in the current Tide defense. And after beginning in Tuscaloosa with a pro-style offense, Saban and coordinator Lane Kiffin have spread the field with running-passing freshman Jalen Hurts in charge.4. As the Big 12 dithers over whether to expand, and it looks increasingly as if the league couldnt get eight votes to decide that today is Thursday, Houston is making a compelling case for an invitation. Members of a conference want a new member to carry its own weight in the marketplace. And Houston is doing that in its home TV market. Since Texas A&M bolted to the SEC, so has the Houston TV market. SEC games made up six of the top 10 football telecasts last season in Houston. But this season, the Cougars game against Oklahoma on Sept. 3 had a 12.8 rating in Houston, and the Thursday night game against Cincinnati on Sept. 15 had a 6.78. Those are big numbers.5. The top talents among the 156 semifinalists for the Campbell Trophy, the Academic Heisman awarded by the National Football Foundation, include at least three compelling stories: BYU sixth-year, oft-injured quarterback Taysom Hill, Duke corner DeVon Edwards, who just tore his left ACL and MCL on Saturday, and Syracuse tight end Cameron MacPherson, the grandson of College Football Hall of Fame coach Dick MacPherson. The NFF will name on Nov. 1 the 12 to 14 finalists, each of whom will receive an $18,000 postgraduate scholarship. The Campbell Trophy winner, named at the Hall of Fame dinner on Dec. 6, receives an additional $7,000 grant.6. Penn State is still suffering the effects of the NCAA scholarship penalties. You can judge that by the scoreboard, where the Nittany Lions are 0-2 against Power 5 opponents, including a 49-10 loss at Michigan on Saturday as one-sided as it appears. Or you can judge that by the comments of Penn State head coach James Franklin at his weekly media conference on Tuesday. Their (\[defensive] front is big, strong and physical, and we did not handle that well, Franklin said. Defensively, I think were playing hard; however, we need to be more physical up front. To paraphrase Franklin, Penn State isnt as talented as Michigan. And undefeated Minnesota (3-0) comes to State College on Saturday.7. Georgia Tech (3-1, 0-1) already has won as many games this season as it did last, but the 26-7 loss at Clemson last Thursday night, when Tech gained only 124 yards, illustrated how head coach Paul Johnson hasnt solved his offensive woes. Johnsons option attack at its best chews up yardage and clock in big chunks, which is to say, the statistic that most reveals Georgia Techs struggles is time of possession. The Yellow Jackets rank 61st in the FBS, averaging 29:38 per game. 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The legspinner has grabbed the opportunity and is currently the third highest-wicket taker in the tournament with 26 scalps.The responsibility of being the frontline spinner is a good thing because I was mostly branded as a one-day and T20 bowler, he tells ESPNcricinfo. It was challenging at the start, but there was a lot of self-belief because I have done well from the IPL (he was Royal Challengers Bangalores highest wicket-taker this season) to the Zimbabwe tour with the Indian team. The confidence that comes with playing for India shows in your performance. It is also satisfying to deliver for your captain, coach and the team in the absence of our two big spinners.At the IPL, Chahal has largely been used as an attacking option by Virat Kohli, and he has delivered most times. At the domestic level, however, his challenges have been to remain consistent through the course of long spells, something he hasnt been used to, but has learnt on the job. Former India legspinner Laxman Sivaramakrishnan said on commentary recently that Chahal was among the countrys best legspinners, and praised Chahal for not overdoing his variations. Chahal attributes the disciplined approach to greater maturity and awareness.Its about my line and length again. When you bottle up the scoring, you put pressure on the batsmen because he has to score runs ultimately, Chahal, who has played three matches or more in a season just once, in 2011-12, explains. You have to continuously keep bowling on a spot. There comes a time when you know that the batsmen is about to try something, and thats when you use your variation and try to deceive him.You cant try too hard for wickets in [multiple] days cricket because your patience is constantly tested here. For your part, you need to test the batsmens patience. First, I need to patiently settle down into a good line and length in my first spell, and then try my variations. Often you go wicketless for 20 overs, but by the time you come to the end of your spell you have five wickets in 30 overs.Chahal calls IPL 2014, where he picked up 12 wickets from 14 games, a turning point in his career. He followed up that season with 23 wickets in 2015. This season, he was the tournaments second-highest wicket-taker behind Bhuvneshwar Kumar. In the IPL, I go for wickets a lot more. If you see, I have been hit for two big sixes, but Ive come back to get the batsmen out, he says. Leg-spinners are by nature wicket-taking bowlers, and that was what I was told to do by my coaches there, although tactics depended on the games situation as well. Chahals is a classical action. He hasnt been intimidated by the small boundaries at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium, where his franchise plays its home games, and has instead derived satisfaction at picking wickets despite the obvious disadvantage. Its not really about the ground, he says. If you bowl well then regardless of the size of the ground you will get wickets, if you bowl badly it will go for a six.When somebody hits me for a six I dont llook to bowl faster.dddddddddddd My strength is to induce the drive by flighting the ball. Virat [Kohli] bhaiyya would support me a lot on the field. It wasnt like he would get flustered when you are hit for a six; the way he saw it was if the ball went for a six it went off a good ball with the batsmen playing a good shot.Much of his confidence, he says, is a product of bowling to the likes of Kohli, AB de Villiers, Shane Watson and Chris Gayle in the nets. Frequent conversations with them have helped Chahal get an insight into the minds of world-class batsmen. Often when you plan what to bowl to them and when they arent able to hit you then you know this length is right, he says. They would keep telling me if I had to shorten my length or flight the ball more or less. Whenever I bowled to Gayle I would bowl well wide outside off, and work out that if he isnt able to hit me then I can try this against Warner and the likes.Chahal is also grateful to coach Daniel Vettori for his technical guidance. During the IPL, he would immediately tell me when my body was falling over or if my stride was getting longer or if I was rushing through my run up, he says. Even recently when I was playing the KSCA tournament I told him about the one or two no balls I bowled. He told me either my stride was getting longer or I was running a touch faster. I communicate with him on Whatsapp all the time.During the IPL I would watch videos with Vettori sir, Allan Donald sir and Bharath Arun sir and find out a batsmans strong areas. If somebody plays well through the covers, the idea is to not let him bowl a drive-able length, and for a batsman who sweeps well we would set fields accordingly.As a result of constantly engaging with the games greats, Chahal says there was not much nervousness when he made his international debut in Zimbabwe. He did himself no discredit with six wickets from three ODIs, including a man-of-the-match in his second game, and finished with three scalps in as many T20Is. Chahal says the bonding within the Indian camp made learning a lot more fun.Mahi bhai [MS Dhoni] would come and we would all play FIFA together [on the Playstation]. Then we would all gather together for dinner and order food from Indian restaurants, he says. We also went to watch a movie. So it was a pretty good thing, because we were together not only on the field, but also off it.Bonding aside, what has he learnt from Dhoni? Mahi bhai reads both the pitch and the batsmen very well from behind the stumps, he says. If I bowled short, he would tell me I could bowl outside [off stump] and vary my pace a bit. If he spotted something he would alert me, yeh batsman kuch karne waala hai abhi (The batsman is going to try something now). If I bowl four to five balls well he would say yeh achcha hai, chalne do (this is good, dont try anything else).Chahals long-term ambition is to play Test cricket, but is aware of the need to turn in consistent performances over a length of time. There will be lean patches, but it is important to recover from it quickly, he says. This is in some ways my first season and I hope I can perform well and take Haryana into the Elite division [Groups A and B]. Thats my primary focus for now. ' ' '