Miami dominance and a UCLA stunner: Recapping a chaotic Week 6

It mightiness look hard to believe, but a quarter-century ago, determination was nary much fearsome programme successful assemblage shot than Miami.

Those were unusual days. Most people's phones were tethered to a wall, the Internet was strictly for arguing implicit "Star Trek," and Bill Belichick was considered a wildly disappointing caput coach.

Only 1 of those things is existent today. And yet, for each that has changed implicit these past decades, for each the misery Miami has endured, Saturday marked an inflection point.

The Canes are back.

Let's look astatine the résumé. Miami opened the play with a triumph implicit Notre Dame, and the Irish present look similar a existent contender again, aft beating Boise State successful emphatic fashion, 28-7 connected Saturday. Miami dominated USF, 1 of the Group of 6's champion teams. Miami thumped Florida, which showed signs of beingness successful Week 6 by stunning Texas. And successful Tallahassee connected Saturday, Miami made a connection successful dismantling Florida State, 28-19.

And portion Miami soared, No. 7 Penn State and No. 9 Texas endured mosaics of laughter and cocktails of tears successful Week 6. Oh, sorry, we're being told that's really the Mad Libs statement Taylor Swift utilized for her caller album. But it's inactive fitting.

Six weeks into the season, it's astir apt worthy taking a measurement backmost and recalibrating, reevaluating and, frankly, regretting truthful overmuch of what we thought to beryllium existent earlier the 2025 run kicked off.

We've seen however acold preseason assumptions person gotten us. Clemson, Arizona State and Illinois were each expected to beryllium playoff favorites, lone for September to shatter that illusion.

In Week 5, we saw 4 top-10 teams suffer -- Florida State, Penn State, LSU and Georgia.

And successful Week 6, the grim reaper came for the Nittany Lions (again) and the Longhorns, courtesy of 2 teams who had yet to triumph a Power 4 game.

That Florida upended Texas is simply a surprise, to beryllium sure, but not similar realizing the feline from "White Lotus" besides played Uncle Rico successful "Napoleon Dynamite." We could, aft all, person seen this coming. Billy Napier is assemblage football's Jason Voorhees -- drown, hacked, flambéed and forced to ticker each the full DVD postulation of "According to Jim," and yet helium keeps coming back. Napier cannot beryllium felled by accepted weapons. Florida volition lone beryllium capable to occurrence him aft enlisting the assistance of witch doctors, paranormal psychologists and Auburn boosters. Napier is similar "Grey's Anatomy," a happening you're shocked to larn is someway inactive going each caller assemblage shot season.

Napier's latest revival came successful a 29-21 triumph implicit Texas successful which the Gators defence racked ...