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Some of the most memorable weeks in college football end up being the ones fans don’t quite see coming. While the Week 6 scoreboard included no huge clash of the titans to generate hype all through the week, Saturday itself provided more thrills, upsets and iconic images than we’ve seen in any given week during the 2024 season.
The college football rankings have to be thrown into the blender after Week 6 because so many of the pieces that made up last week’s AP Top 25 poll look very different after Saturday, which was historic. Five teams in the top 12 of the AP rankings lost, the first time that’s happened since 2021 — but even back in 2021, three of those losses came to fellow top 12 teams, meaning there was guaranteed to be some ranked carnage. This was different.
Seven teams from the top 12 of last week’s rankings were on the road on Saturday, and five of them (at the time of this initial publish) lost. And while it’s easy to be amazed in the totality of the day’s upsets, none were more remarkable than unranked Vanderbilt taking down No. 1 Alabama the week after the Crimson Tide had risen to that spot by beating Georgia.
It wasn’t the biggest upset by point spread of the season (that would still be Notre Dame’s loss to Northern Illinois), but given the history and pedigree of each program, the result is going to resonate for decades. The images of the goal posts being carried down Broadway in downtown Nashville, the dynamic playmaking of Diego Pavia and the fact that Vanderbilt went wire-to-wire in the win by pushing an Alabama defense off the ball make the Commodores’ victory one of the biggest results of the season so far.
But then there was even more!
No. 4 Tennessee lost a low-scoring battle at unranked Arkansas,…
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Author : Chip Patterson
Publish date : 2024-10-06 04:26:05
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