Week 5 of the college football season is in the books and I’m slightly saddened that we are already nearing the halfway point of the regular season.
But what a weekend of football it was. It started with a great game between Kentucky and Ole Miss, a meeting that the Wildcats literally fumbled away. Alabama and Arkansas was extremely exciting, for the third quarter at least. In the ACC, Wake Forest bounced back with a big win over FSU while Clemson took care of business against NC State. And then there was Georgia, the No. 1 team in the nation, needing a fourth-quarter comeback to beat Missouri in Columbia.
Right now, national championship odds, courtesy of BetMGM, are: Alabama (plus-200), Georgia (plus-200), Ohio State (plus-200), USC (plus-1100), Clemson (plus-1400), Michigan (plus-2000), Oklahoma State (plus-5000), Ole Miss (plus-5000) and Tennessee (plus-5000).
Though the first round of College Football Playoff rankings are not released until Nov. 1, I tried to think like a member of the committee and projected what the CFP rankings would look like if it were released today.