October tried to end Nate Waldron's season before it had a chance to take shape. Boston topped his slip at 8, the baseball board stopped at 19, and 230th paid 22 placement points.
His answer was a clean read on the NBA. Four of 5 win totals landed, bringing 233 points and 18th. Even a missed Georgia title call left his CFP card at 50th with 202.
The recovery never became a full charge because college football finished 154th, the NFL Playoffs 172nd and March 157th. Still, October remained Waldron's only bottom-quarter result. A 49th-place World Cup card and 132nd in golf supplied an 11-place closing gain. Waldron reached 106th with 1330, far enough from that October wreck to make the recovery the season's lasting image.