Pac-12 resurgence, Wisconsin’s downfall and rank(ed) Kansas: Winners and losers from Week 5 of the college football season

Our impressions from a wild week that saw 10 ranked teams fall.

Week after week, the 2022 college football season has treated us to absolute mayhem.

Things have been rather chalky up at the top (despite Georgia’s best efforts), but otherwise, the middle class has been entirely unpredictable. Ten teams that entered Week 5 ranked in the AP Top 25 lost, resulting in a big shakeup in the polls as we enter Week 6.

In addition to all that movement, we also saw two more Power Five jobs open up on Sunday — one fairly surprising, the other not so much.

It’s hard to believe we’re already in the month of October and closing in on the halfway point of the season, but it just goes to show how important each and every game is, at least under the current postseason format.

Here are the winners and losers from Week 5: