Is Alabama back? Is Oregon the Big Ten's best? A raucous Week 5 reshuffled expectations

The quality of assemblage football, the happening that keeps america coming backmost week aft week successful spite of the exasperating morass of everything that happens disconnected the field, is that the athletics keeps astonishing us.

This shouldn't beryllium possible. Once you've seen the set connected the field, the Kick Six and a subordinate mimic a urinating canine aft a touchdown, we should beryllium immune to specified astonishment. And yet, present were are, successful Week 5, awash successful daze and awe erstwhile more.

Who would've thought that Alabama, reeling successful the aftermath of a Week 1 nonaccomplishment to Florida State, would waltz into Athens and swat down Georgia, 24-21, down a superb show from QB Ty Simpson? Kalen DeBoer has gone from the blistery spot to the SEC's throne successful the span of a month.

Who might've imagined that James Franklin, 3 quarters of the mode done yet different basal canal of a show successful a large game, would spot his Penn State squad rally from 14 points down to unit overtime against Oregon? If it each inactive came to an extremity with a 30-24 decision successful treble overtime, the crippled inactive felt much similar past year's conflict of titans betwixt the Ducks and Ohio State, a appetizer earlier an entree to travel aboriginal -- successful the league rubric crippled oregon the College Football Playoff oregon astatine Dan Lanning's yearly Big Ten household travel to Six Flags.

Who would person imagined that a clattering of cowbells would travel wrong a fewer yards of upending the SEC's powerfulness structure, that Virginia, a schoolhouse founded by Thomas Jefferson to found a bastion of higher acquisition successful a caller country, would stun Florida State, oregon that, conscionable days aft Brian Kelly promised LSU would support the Magnolia Trophy, Lane Kiffin would travel distant with a triumph and troll Kelly connected societal media?

OK, truthful we astir apt should've seen that past 1 coming.

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And so, we've reached September's end, and truthful overmuch of what seemed definite has travel undone. No. 3 Penn State, No. 4 LSU, No. 5 Georgia and No. 8 Florida State each went down successful a raucous Week 5 that reshuffled expectations for October and offered a reminder of conscionable however small we cognize truthful aboriginal successful a season.

In Week 1, we got our archetypal existent stunner of the caller season, arsenic Tommy Castellanos and the Seminoles upended Alabama. After Saturday, it seems intolerable to judge that conscionable 5 weeks person passed since then.

For the Tide, each glaring weakness connected show successful Tallahassee connected Aug. 30 had been miraculously remedied successful Athens connected Saturday night. Simpson was terrific, throwing for 276 yards and 2 scores, the defence was stalwart, and DeBoer and violative coordinator Ryan Grubb worked magic, from a rejuvenated rushing onslaught to a adjacent flawless nighttime of third-down play calling to the inspired usage of near tackle Kadyn Proctor connected a instrumentality play that we presume Bama calls "No, ...