College Football Blotter Report: Preseason-itis Attacks

Chaos abounded this week, as 6 of the 23 ranked teams that played falling prey to the upset bug.  Or the flu bug perhaps.  Or maybe even more accurately, they fell victim to the #1 cause of early season upsets; Preseason-itis.To understand what Preseason-itis is, you must first comprehend what an upset is.  On its most basic level in college football, an upset is when a game occurs wherein a ranked team loses to either a lower ranked team or an unranked team.  Well, duh.  You see, I have to elucidate this point because otherwise some people may not comprehend why a game like Ole' Miss losing to South Carolina was a huge upset.  The #4 team in the country losing to an unranked team that had already lost once this season?  Huge upset, right?Nope.Two pesky things get in the way of calling the Ole' Miss loss an upset; facts and logic.  These two teams played last year, returned all of the same core players (minus Ole' Miss losing two f...