Week 5 brought back memories of the 2007 season in which we seemed to see the #1 or #2 team getting beaten each week. Four of the Top 10 teams fell There could have been more but two were idle and one was playing (and beat) a higher ranked team (see #2 Georgia vs. #8 Alabama).
I opened last week’s listing of matchups with this line: “With many of the larger conferences getting into their conference schedule, the time is ripe for some upsets to begin appearing in the Sunday papers’ scoreboards.” Whoo-boy-howdy! Was it ever a week for upsets! Because of bye weeks (6) only 19 of the Top 25 played this week. Seven (7) of them lost to unranked or lower ranked teams. Three games matched two Top 25 teams against one another. (One resulted in an upset while the other two had the higher ranking team win.)
(Poll numbers are those of the teams entering Week 5. Rankings are from the AP Writers’ Poll/the Coaches Poll/CBSSports.com in that order. NR= Not Ranked)
1/1/1 Southern California The Trojans traveled up the coast to Corvallis, OR to play at Oregon State Thursday night and for the second time three years, they lost to the Beavers. The final was 27-21.
2/2/2 Oklahoma The Sooners hosted the Horned Frogs of #24 TCU. They beat them up 35-10.
3/3/3 Georgia The Bulldogs hosted the #8 Alabama Crimson Tide Saturday night. All the Georgia fans wore black. At the end of the game it was for mourning as the Tide rolled all over the Bulldogs by a score of 41-30. Believe me, it was not that close.
4/4/4 Florida The Gators hosted Ole Miss Saturday afternoon. By virtue of a blocked extra point, the Gators lost 31-30.
5/6/5 LSU The LSU Tigers hosted Mississippi State and won 34-24.
6/5/6 Missouri The Missouri Tigers (4-0) have the weekend off.
7/7/7 Texas The Longhorns played host to Arkansas Razorbacks. The Longhorns proved too much for Arkansas and came away 52-10 victors.
8/10/9 Alabama The Tide went down to #3 Georgia . They went home with a win (41-30).
9/8/8 Wisconsin The Badgers were on the road to play Michigan. They went home unhappy as they got beat 27-25.
10/9/11 Texas Tech The Red Raiders (4-0) had the weekend to relax.
11/11/10 Brigham Young The 4-0 Cougars had the weekend off.
12/12/16 Penn State The Nittany Lions played host to #22 Illinois. The Illini did not find Happy Valley so happy as they were beat by PSU 38-24.
13/14/15 South Florida The Bulls traveled up the coast to NC State where they improved to 5-0 with a 26-13 victory over NCSU.
14/13/13 Ohio State The Buckeyes hosted the undefeated Minnesota Gophers. (And doesn’t that sound weird!) OSU skinned ‘em 34-21. Now both teams are 4-1.
15/16/12 Auburn The Auburn Tigers hosted Tennessee. The Tigers beat the Volunteers 14-12.
16/15/14 Wake Forest The Demon Deacons hosted Navy. The Midshipmen were not intimidated and came away with the upset win 24-17.
17/17/18 Utah The Utes hosted Weber State this weekend. Utah won 37-21.
18/18/17 Kansas They Jayhawks (3-1) enjoyed an idle weekend.
19/20/19 Boise State The Broncos (3-0) had the weekend off.
20/19/21 Clemson The Tigers hosted Maryland. The Terps pulled off the upset 2017.
21/25/25 Vanderbilt The 4-0 Commodores had the week off.
22/21/23 Illinois The Illini travelled to Happy Valley to play #12 Penn State. It was rainy and sad. PSU won 38-24.
23/NR/20 East Carolina The Pirates hosted Houston and proved much to kind to the Cougars who went back to Texas with a 41-24 win.
24/23/NR TCU The Horned Frogs travelled to #2 Oklahoma. The Sooners won 35-10.
25/24/24 Fresno State The Bulldogs made a short hop over to LA to face UCLA. The Bulldogs beat the Bruins 36-31.
NR/22/NR Oregon The Ducks travelled to Pullman, WA to face Washington State. Wazzu proved to be no competition as the Ducks won 63-14.
NR/NR/22 Virginia Tech The Hokies travel west to square off against Nebraska. VT won by a score of 35-30.
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