The beauty of college football, the thing that keeps us coming back week after week in spite of the exasperating morass of everything that happens off the field, is that the sport keeps surprising us.

This shouldn't be possible. Once you've seen the band on the field, the Kick Six and a player mimic a urinating dog after a touchdown, we should be immune to such astonishment. And yet, here were are, in Week 5, awash in shock and awe once more.

Who would've thought that Alabama , reeling in the aftermath of a Week 1 loss to Florida State , would waltz into Athens and swat down Georgia , 24-21, behind a brilliant performance from QB Ty Simpson ? Kalen DeBoer has gone from the hot seat to the SEC's throne in the span of a month.

Who might've imagined that James Franklin, three quart

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