We’re still sifting through the wreckage of a Week 5 that saw three top-five teams lose to lower-ranked teams while a handful of other Top 25 teams eked out wins in games that were far too close for comfort.

There’s a lot to try to make sense of, and it feels like each week my fellow AP voters and I are trying to figure out the correct pecking order in the SEC ... and it’s like throwing darts at the wall. Obviously, it’ll be easier to evaluate these SEC squads once more of them play each other, but right now it looks like this is a deep conference without a clear frontrunner. Meanwhile, the Big Ten’s best teams look very good, but there’s not nearly the same kind of depth beyond the league’s top tier.

My ballot matched up pretty well with the actual AP poll. Most teams were ranked with 2

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