Can Week 8 up the ante again with more upsets and drama?

If you thought Week 7 was mayhem, brace yourself. College football's most chaotic season in memory rolls into Week 8, and the SEC — the league that once stood for sanity and order — is now its epicenter of madness.

Last week brought genuine shockwaves: Auburn stunned Georgia in Athens, Alabama lost back-to-back regular-season games for the first time since 2007, and Texas's freefall continued with a loss to Florida that left Steve Sarkisian under fire and Arch Manning on the brink of being benched. For a conference that has gone three straight seasons without a team in the national title game, the jeers are only getting louder.

Week 8 offers little relief. Ole Miss — looking like one of the safest bets in the SEC — heads to Austin for a showdown with the wounded Longhorns. Alabama must regroup against a reeling Texas A&M, while Auburn tries to avoid a letdown after its Athens triumph. Tennessee hosts South Carolina in a game that could build on the Vols' statement win.

Outside the SEC, the slate is just as rich. No. 1 Miami, behind Darian Mensah's near-flawless passing, hosts a Pitt team that has lost its starting quarterback and its past two games after a 5-0 start. BYU, fresh off arguably its biggest win in 40 years over Notre Dame, travels to UCF. And in the Big 12's year of the moment, Houston — unbeaten and rolling behind Conner Weigman's 343-yard, five-touchdown eruption — visits Utah with a clear path to the conference title game at stake.

Week 7 was one of the wildest in recent memory. As Hale writes, the chaos of this SEC season may be a feature, not a bug — and Week 8 has every chance to up the ante again.