College football injury panic meter: Assessing Julian Sayin, Colin Simmons as Week 7 sends superstars to shelf

Breaking down how much trouble Ohio State, Texas, Alabama and other national championship hopefuls face as critical contributors nurse injuries across the country Sometimes injuries can feel like they hit in a flurry. In Ohio State's win over Indiana last week, for instance, both quarterbacks got banged up, shaping the rest of the game and at least in Ohio State's case, potentially the rest of the regular season. Some of the teams that will be the biggest factors in the CFP race are dealing with key pieces that are nursing bumps and bruises. Yes there are availability reports in college football for an increased level of transparency, but we've seen from LSU this year, to USC last year, there can certainly be chicanery risks when trusting what teams put out.

So we're taking our own stab at analyzing these players' status by degrees of panic. Scientifically, it's simple: Crimson Tide coach Kalen DeBoer had little in the way of details after Alabama's loss to Tennessee. "We'll just work through it here this week. I don't have much more than that," he told reporters when asked about Crowell and corner Zabien Brown's injuries. Crowell went down in the second quarter and did not return to the game, although he did come back to the sideline, and according to The Tuscaloosa News