Oregon in OT? Virginia's stunner? Bama's redemption? Ranking the 25 best games of Week 5

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Bill ConnellySep 28, 2025, 07:00 PM ET
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Oregon and Penn State went to overtime. Alabama and Georgia astir did. Tennessee went to overtime for a 2nd clip successful 3 weeks. Illinois watched a two-score pb vanish against unbeaten USC and past won anyway. Georgia Tech pulled disconnected a magic enactment to debar an upset successful Wake Forest.

What looked to beryllium a large Friday nighttime was 1 of the champion Friday nights successful memory, with Virginia pulling disconnected a stirring overtime upset of Florida State, Arizona State unearthing immoderate much close-game magic and Houston coming backmost to triumph successful overtime successful Corvallis. Indiana survived Iowa City. Cincinnati and Kansas enactment connected a Big 12 way meet. Central Washington scored 91 points!

There aren't galore things successful the satellite amended than a immense assemblage shot Saturday that lives up to its hype. We had been looking guardant to Week 5 since the preseason, and it delivered. So alternatively of compiling a "My Favorite Games of the Week" database astatine the bottommost of this week's recap column, we're going to physique the full file retired of My Favorite Games!

1. Virginia 46, No. 8 Florida State 38 (2OT)

With Florida State facing its archetypal roadworthy trial of the play and TCU and Arizona State facing disconnected successful a cardinal Big 12 battle, Friday nighttime looked similar it was going to beryllium awesome. It was much than that. Arizona State and TCU went down to the wire, Houston-Oregon State was amazingly awesome, and the crippled betwixt YAC kings successful Charlottesville exceeded each expectations.

Thanks successful portion to an aboriginal fumble from FSU's Gavin Sawchuk and an acrobatic reddish portion interception from UVA's Ja'son Prevard, Virginia led 14-0 aboriginal successful the 2nd quarter. When FSU scored connected 3 consecutive drives, however, this crippled looked similar it would beryllium to the "Underdog lands immoderate shots early, past fades" category. We spot a batch of those games.

Virginia conscionable kept responding, however. J'Mari Taylor tied the crippled astatine 21-21 earlier halftime, Chandler Morris scored his 2nd rushing touchdown, and Morris threw a go-ahead TD to Xavier Brown with 7:20 left. FSU sent the crippled to overtime with a fourth-and-goal touchdown walk from Tommy Castellanos to Randy Pittman Jr. with 36 seconds left; I was amazed FSU didn't spell for 2 points and the win, but possibly manager Mike Norvell simply trusted that his discourtesy was much apt to support scoring. Nope! The Seminoles didn't nett a azygous archetypal down successful 2 overtime possessions. First, some teams settled for tract goals. Then Morris scored again and deed Trell Harris for the 2-point conversion. Prevard picked disconnected Castellanos' desperation heave, and 1 of the astir rapid field-stormings you'll ever spot followed.

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