Brian’s College Football Top 5: Week 5

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In previous weeks I’ve mentioned that the most impressive teams actually don’t seem to be the normal teams and that this could be a very fun year of college football.

Well this week the normal impressive teams played the newly impressive teams and reminded us all who was still king around here.

Here’s this weeks top 5.

5. Mississippi State Bulldogs

Mississippi State is better than people think. Texas A&M isn’t as good as people think. That’s not why State is here.

State is here because they made this guy look even more stupid than he did when he said that Starkville, Mississippi was a “dump of a town” and that the football team “loses every year.”

Mississippi State has beaten Texas A&M four of the last six matchups between the schools, and Dak Prescott wasn’t a part of any of those State teams.

Maybe A&M should just kind of stay quiet when they play Mississippi State.

Or just in general.

There’s just something about these new Texas SEC schools in thinking they’re better than they actually are…

4. Stanford Cardinal

Stanford once again ruined their conferences chances of finding their way into the college football playoff with an overtime victory of number 3 Oregon.

They would be hire if they didn’t throw three goal line fades in OT, get bailed out by a pass interference call and then score the touchdown to win it.

In fact, three goal line fades alone made me question putting them on here at all.

Eh. Whatever.

3. UConn Huskies

I mentioned this last week when UConn almost ruined the Trash Bowl between UConn and Vanderbilt, but UConn actually played very well against Wyoming and had a good chance against Vandy.

And quite frankly, they should have won.

But the most impressive thing is how hard UConn is playing.

The entire status of the program right now is a mystery since they don’t have a conference. Their head coach quit two games in. The rest of the staff has already been told they won’t return at the end of the year.

They are still playing hard every single game.

I hope they get at least one win.

They play UMass this week. That might be a good chance.

2. Georgia Bulldogs

I said it last week. Arkansas is a good team with a junior Cam Newton at QB for them in KJ Jefferson.

Boy, Georgia brought the Hogs and everyone right back down to Earth real fast.

This was a demolition from the get go, and Georgia looks like the easy national champion favorite right now.

Which will make it even more funny when they lose to Florida and Auburn and miss out of the playoff with two losses.

1. Iowa Hawkeyes

Taulia Tagovailoa was playing very well and Maryland was having a fantastic start to the season.

I thought Iowa would beat them on Friday night, but I knew Maryland was playing well enough to have it be close.

It wasn’t close.

It wasn’t even sort of close.

That Iowa Hawkeyes defense is smothering. Tagovailoa entered Friday night having only thrown one interception.

He left Friday night having thrown 6. The third worst amount of interceptions thrown in college football.

This isn’t a slight against Taulia, either. That’s just how damn good the Iowa Hawkeyes defense is.

Are they title contenders? Eh, probably not.

But they’re still damn good, and whoever wins the Big 10 East this season is going to have a fight on their hands in the Big 10 title game.