The title of this article is more than just a clever and current movie reference, this weekend was all those adjectives above to ranked college football teams. Week 6 was a week that saw a historic 12 of the top 25 teams fall (first time ever five of the top eight AP teams all fell on the same weekend). It started on Thursday and did not end until late Saturday night when this writer left the Rose Bowl, head down, upset that not only did the Trojans lose, but the Bruins just blew an opportunity to jump into the playoff picture.
Last week, yours truly wrote an article on the parody in college football this season and who the #1 team was. The answer, by default, is now Florida State. Aside from them though you have Auburn, Notre Dame, Baylor, and the Mississippi schools surviving what could be dubbed upset or survival Saturday.
The upsets where not all on Saturday, though. Thursday night Arizona took down #2 Oregon and proceeded to go from unranked to #10 in the country in the AP Poll. Then on Friday in a battle between two Utah rivals, #18 BYU was defeated by a Utah State team that had so far, been a disappointment and was without star QB Chuckie Keeton.
Saturday the shakeup continued with #12 Mississippi State taking down #6 Texas A&M in dominating fashion, #11 Ole Miss squeaked by #3 Alabama who was starting to look like a #1 caliber team, #25 TCU took down #4 Oklahoma in a fun to look back and forth game, #17 Wisconsin was upset by a Northwestern team that just seems like one big gimmick, #16 USC and #8 UCLA both lost to unranked, one loss Pac-12 foes, and #14 Stanford and #15 LSU lost to higher ranked teams.
Here's a look at this writer’s week seven rankings: 1 Florida State, 2 Auburn, 3 Baylor, 4 Notre Dame, 5 Ole Miss, 6 Mississippi St, 7 Alabama, 8 Arizona, 9 Oregon, 10 Michigan St, 11 Oklahoma, 12 Texas A&M, 13 UCLA, 14 Ohio St, 15 Arizona St, 16 Georgia, 17 TCU, 18 Kansas State, 19 Missouri, 20 East Carolina, 21 Georgia Tech, 22 Utah, 23 Oklahoma St, 24 USC, 25 Stanford. Just outside my top 25 are Nebraska, LSU, BYU, Marshall, and Washington.
As you can see, Arizona and TCU skyrocket into the rankings after their huge upsets after both being unranked last week. The Mississippi's both have tough matchups again this coming week and hopefully one will lose so we can separate them somehow. With them it's basically what do you like better: Ole Miss' Defense or Miss State's Offense? One more note on the rankings are that yours truly is not high on either Georgia or Oklahoma State who each have one loss.
Coming into the weekend, it was thought that week six would be one that could change the landscape of college football and boy did it ever. A true number one may have identified itself, even if by default, in Florida State. Week six also narrowed down the undefeated teams to 10. Next week looks to be more of the same with some great conference matchups, but way different due to some rankings chaos. Playoff committee, you have your work cut out for you.
Games to look forward too next Saturday: #12 Oregon at #18 UCLA, USC at #10 Arizona, #13 Georgia at #23 Missouri, #2 Auburn at #3 Mississippi State, #3 Ole Miss at #14 Texas A&M, Duke At #22 Georgia Tech, and #9 TCU at #5 Baylor.