The biggest upset of the year, already? Plus, CFB's war continues

The Pulse Newsletter 📣 | This is The Athletic’s daily sports newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Pulse directly in your inbox.Good morning! Be UMass today. Inside: 🤗 Two fun CFB games 🙃 Two un-fun CFB stories 🐲 Swamp dragons Fun: Time to rank UMass No. 1Before we get to the off-field brouhaha in my neck of the woods, I’d like to start today with some actual college football fun. Because last night, unexpectedly, was a banger, led by a team that went 0-12 last year. Quickly: UMass — UMass! — trounced Rutgers, at Rutgers, 37-21. The Minutemen had not won a game in two years, had not beaten an FBS opponent since 2023 and their last major-conference win came in 1978. And they had Rutgers in the torture rack all night. Rutgers paid UMass $1.55 million to play this game, and Minutemen co