Week 8 of the college football season delivered upset chaos on Saturday, October 24, 2026. UCF beat No. 2 BYU 39-31 in double overtime in Orlando, the programme’s first win over a top-five team in its history.
Backup quarterback Keyone Jenkins threw a four-yard touchdown to Grayson Brousseau in the second overtime, plus a two-point conversion, before BYU’s final fourth-and-goal pass fell incomplete.
Elsewhere, Wisconsin beat USC 24-7 in Madison, with fans storming the field. Wisconsin rushed for 142 yards, sacked USC quarterback Jayden Maiava five times and intercepted him twice. Cincinnati beat Texas Tech 37-24, while South Carolina beat Tennessee 27-24 and Minnesota beat Iowa 13-10, both on walk-off field goals.
NCAA.com noted five unranked-over-ranked wins in Week 8, the most of the season so far, and that an AP Top-2 team has now lost to an unranked opponent three straight weeks, the first time since 2007.
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