Mandel’s Final Thoughts: Washington wins with swagger, USC crumbles, Deion gets SNL treatment

Sign up for the Until Saturday newsletter | Jayna Bardahl and The Athletic’s college football staff deliver expert analysis on the biggest CFB stories five days per week. Get it sent to your inbox.

And now, 20 Final Thoughts from Week 7, which provided us wild comebacks, a couple of Hail Marys . . . and Michigan 52, Indiana 7; Florida State 41, Syracuse 3 . . .
1. At his postgame news conference following No. 7 Washington’s captivating, back-and-forth shootout with No. 8 Oregon, a reporter asked former four-year Big Ten quarterback Michael Penix Jr. whether the Big Ten “appreciates…