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College Football’s 5th Quarter: 5 reasons Week 6 was awesome

By Justin Dottavio

STARKVILLE, MS - OCTOBER 06: Joel Baldwin #66 of the Mississippi State Bulldogs and Tim Washington #50 celebrate a recovered fumble during the first half against the Auburn Tigers at Davis Wade Stadium on October 6, 2018 in Starkville, Mississippi. (Photo by Jonathan Bachman/Getty Images)
STARKVILLE, MS - OCTOBER 06: Joel Baldwin #66 of the Mississippi State Bulldogs and Tim Washington #50 celebrate a recovered fumble during the first half against the Auburn Tigers at Davis Wade Stadium on October 6, 2018 in Starkville, Mississippi. (Photo by Jonathan Bachman/Getty Images) /
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Week 6 of the college football season was awesome. The mini rivalry weekend inserted amidst the rest of the conference slate produce plenty of great moments.

Week 6 of the 2018 college football season was a mini rivalry weekend of sorts. Three old school hate games were played on Saturday, Oct. 6 as Oklahoma and Texas squared off in the Red River Shootout, Florida State went south to Miami and LSU left the bayou for The Swamp at Florida. The three rivalry games were decided by a total of 12 combined points with the home* (or in the case of Texas/OU, the in-state squad) team winning in all three games.

The College Football Playoff landscape has become slightly more clear after the weekend with the top four programs clearly being Alabama, Ohio State, Georgia and Notre Dame with Clemson on the outside looking in after struggling with Syracuse who then lost to Pitt a week later. Alabama retained their number one ranking by beating up on Arkansas. The Boise State Broncos dropped a home game to San Diego State to ruin their chance of being a Group of 5 New Year’s Six squad once and for all.

Notre Dame has looked impressive and has possibly derailed the Stanford football season as the Cardinal have now lost to struggling Utah 40-21. The Irish win over Stanford may not look as quality in the eyes of the College Football Playoff Committee if David Shaw‘s Cardinal can’t pull it together. Air Force started a new quarterback in Donald Hammond III and he lit up the Navy Midshipmen for 202 total yards and four total touchdowns in the Falcons option offense.

Here are my five biggest takeaways from Week 6, oh yeah and UCF is still undefeated.

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