NCAA College Football Scores, Week 5

NCAA College Football Scores, Week 5

One ranked team (#13 South Carolina) lost to an unranked opponent, but that's a bit deceptive because the winning team, Missouri, was ranked #18 last week.

One game matched ranked teams. #11 UCLA finally lived up to their potential with a 62-27 trouncing of #15 ASU on Thursday. There was a statistical oddity in that game. Despite getting clobbered, ASU actually had more offensive yards from scrimmage. In fact, they amassed a very impressive 626 yards. UCLA won thanks to four takeaways and a 100-yard kickoff return. The Bruins put up a solid 580 yards from scrimmage, and supplemented that with another 318 yards on interception run-backs and kick returns.

Four ranked teams had rough sledding:

#1 FSU was behind 24-7 at the end of the first quarter, but they eventually got their act together.

#6 Texas A&M needed OT to defeat Arkansas.

#16 Stanford defeated Washington on a late TD. To be fair, although Washington was unranked, they did have a 4-0 record, so Stanford was not expected to win in a cakewalk.

#12 Georgia fought Tennessee right down to the wire, finally winning by three.

Outside the top 25, the wildest game was a 59-56 duel between Cal and Colorado. In a weird statistical confluence, both quarterbacks threw for exactly 449 yards and exactly 7 TDs.