Pavia's pose, Brohm's big win: Week 8's CFB superlatives

Week 8 had everything 1 could ideate successful a slate of assemblage football.

There were acrobatic catches, Heisman poses, left-handed completions, palmy fake punts and, of course, trolling. Louisville head manager Jeff Brohm strengthened his resume arsenic an underdog, Minnesota's blimpish punt paid disconnected and California's mascot delivered a stroke to Bill Belichick and North Carolina.

With the engaged week, we handed retired respective nontraditional superlatives for Week 8 of the assemblage shot season.

Scariest manager to look portion successful the AP Top 5?: Jeff Brohm

Louisville entered Hard Rock Stadium unranked and with a seven-game losing streak against AP top-5 opponents arsenic undefeated Miami awaited. The No. 2-seeded Hurricanes were treble digit favorites, however, past and the betting people didn't instrumentality into relationship the Cardinals caput coach, Jeff Brohm.

Brohm has recovered improbable occurrence arsenic an underdog. Prior to Friday, helium had secured 3 victories arsenic an unranked hostile against an AP top-5 hostile - which was improved to 4 aft Louisville stunned Miami successful a 24-21 victory. Brohm is 4-4 erstwhile facing a top-5 squad with this marking his archetypal specified triumph with the Cardinals.

As of now, Louisville's docket doesn't see a akin matchup. But, if it each lines up again, Brohm volition beryllium backmost successful his element.

Best show of the Heisman: Diego Pavia

Vanderbilt defeated LSU successful a connection triumph astatine location for the programme -- and Diego Pavia's Heisman case. Pavia threw for 160 yards and a score, portion moving for 2 touchdowns connected the ground. He's the 2nd Vanderbilt backmost implicit the past 20 seasons with aggregate rushing touchdowns against an AP top-10 opponent.

The elder backmost is present up to 1,409 passing yards with 14 touchdowns and conscionable 4 interceptions. It's ne'er excessively aboriginal for Pavia to marque his propulsion for the Heisman -- helium entered the crippled with likelihood of 150-1 to triumph the award, per ESPN BET -- and helium made the astir of it connected Saturday.

After scoring a rushing touchdown successful the 3rd quarter, Pavia struck the pose.

Vanderbilt QB Diego Pavia deed the Heisman and paid homage to Johnny Manziel 🔥 pic.twitter.com/ukQZ67VIDs

Best usage of their non-dominant hand: Dylan Raiola

Minnesota's defence stifled Nebraska backmost Dylan Raiola, sacking the sophomore a whopping 9 times connected Friday, its astir successful a crippled since 1977. Pressured passim the game, Raiola had to deliberation creatively to get the shot retired astatine times.

He displayed cleanable execution connected second-and-six aboriginal successful the 2nd quarter. While moving a bootleg play enactment pass, Golden Gophers linebacker Maverick Baranowski rushed Raiola arsenic helium began moving to his right. Raiola past stopped connected a dime, avoided the sack, moved the shot to his non-dominant near manus and delivered a onslaught to choky extremity Luke Lindenmeyer for 18 yards.

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