Week 5 of the 2025 college football season was loaded and we got a sense of which teams are the absolute cream of the crop.<\/p>\n
The day started off with a bang as No. 23 Illinois topped No. 21 USC on a last-second field goal<\/a> and No. 16 Georgia Tech needed OT to beat Wake Forest<\/a>.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n In the afternoon window, No. 1 Ohio State flexed on Washington<\/a>, No. 9 Texas A&M held off a late rally by Auburn<\/a> and Lane Kiffin made the gutsy call to go for it on fourth down late against No. 4 LSU to seal a win<\/a> for No. 13 Ole Miss.<\/p>\n In the first marquee matchup of the night, No. 6 Oregon and No. 3 Penn State delivered an instant Big Ten classic<\/a> (despite a rough first half). In the end, the Ducks survived a tough road atmosphere in Happy Valley for a double-overtime win. In the other showdown, No. 17 Alabama toppled No. 5 Georgia <\/a>yet again in what’s become a lopsided rivalry for Bulldogs coach Kirby Smart.<\/p>\n Here’s how things unfolded on Saturday:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Week 5 of the 2025 college football season was loaded and we got a sense of which teams…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[20040,7,3023,1564,1446,948,9653],"class_list":{"0":"post-403464","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-2025-college-football-season","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-georgia-tech","11":"tag-lane-kiffin","12":"tag-ohio-state","13":"tag-penn-state","14":"tag-usc"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115281612754133826","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}