Week 6 preview: Vanderbilt-Alabama, a Sunshine State showdown and more

Last play delivered an action-packed, wire-to-wire assemblage shot slate. In Week 6, the sport's corporate attraction is centered connected a brace of alternatively chiseled but arsenic intriguing ranked matchups: Alabama-Vanderbilt and Florida State-Miami.

It has been astir 365 days since the Commodores downed then-No. 1 Alabama successful a stunning upset past October. No. 16 Vanderbilt, inactive led by backmost Diego Pavia, appears to beryllium adjacent much formidable this autumn arsenic manager Clark Lea leads the Commodores to Bryant-Denny Stadium (3:30 p.m. ET, ABC) this weekend. But they sojourn Alabama to look a Crimson Tide squad led by a surging backmost successful Ty Simpson and a squad that has lone improved since the program's Week 1 decision astatine Florida State.

No. 18 Florida State hosts No. 3 Miami aft suffering its archetypal nonaccomplishment successful a back-and-forth, overtime thriller astatine Virginia successful Week 5. Florida State and a shaky Seminoles antiaircraft beforehand volition tally into an adjacent stiffer trial astatine the enactment of scrimmage Saturday nighttime (7:30 p.m. ET, ABC) against a Hurricanes rushing onslaught led by Mark Fletcher Jr. with ACC rubric contention and postseason implications hanging implicit this aboriginal autumn gathering of in-state league rivals.

With a brace premier matchups up Saturday, our assemblage shot experts broke the matchups betwixt Alabama-Vanderbilt and Florida State-Miami, uncover 5 freshman newcomers who person impressed successful the archetypal period of the 2025 play and recap the champion quotes of Week 6. -- Eli Lederman

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What bash Miami and Florida State request to absorption connected to win?

Miami: Given what Virginia did to Florida State connected the crushed past week successful a thrilling 46-38 double-overtime win, Miami should absorption connected controlling the enactment of scrimmage and dominating connected the ground. Good happening for the Hurricanes, they person plentifulness of acquisition doing that this season. Take their past crippled against Florida, for example. In the 2nd half, they wore down the Gators up beforehand and took power by continuing to tally the ball. Miami rushed for 184 yards arsenic Mark Fletcher Jr. went implicit 100 yards rushing for the 2nd consecutive game. Last twelvemonth against Florida State, Fletcher rushed for 71 yards and scored a touchdown, lone days aft his father, Mark Fletcher Sr., died unexpectedly.

Fletcher said this week helium plays with his dad...