What It All Means: Week 5
It doesn’t matter how it all looks. Just keep the wins coming.
There are 14 unbeaten Power Five programs left, and Coastal Carolina and James Madison are the only remaining perfect teams from the Group of Five.
JMU isn’t eligible for anything this year – long, dumb story about transitioning divisions – and the Chanticleers haven’t been good enough to get through unscathed. For everyone else, just keep going forward.
Duh, what other choice is there, but last weekend once again proved that it’s just about getting that win and moving on.
Any landing you can walk away from is a good one, Georgia.
It might not have been great, the Dawgs left Columbia, Missouri with a 26-22 win. No, the Tigers aren’t supposed to be great, but that’s a night road game in the SEC, it’s not supposed to be easy.
But Georgia won.
And so did Alabama, problems and all.
Ohio State and Michigan winning wasn’t a shock, but TCU blowing past Oklahoma was.
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Oklahoma State was terrific against Baylor, Clemson flexed a little muscle against NC State, Penn State survived Northwestern in the rain, Ole Miss survived Kentucky, and USC did what it needed against Arizona State.
But this last week was about those that fell from the unbeaten.
Just when it seemed like Minnesota was going to be America’s darling, it couldn’t do anything right in the loss to Purdue.
Florida State isn’t the Florida State of old, but it was unbeaten before losing to Wake Forest.
And then there was Washington. It looked so great leading up to the trip to Los Angeles, and then it ran into a buzzsaw as UCLA played – arguably – its best game in the Chip Kelly era to be one of those unbeaten teams to keep an eye on.
Yeah, the playoff system is based on the whims of a panel of judges, but style points don’t mean anything this year. Optics don’t mean what they should.
What have we learned so far through this mess?
That 0 in the loss column doesn’t care how it got there.
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