We're (Still) No. 5!

The University of Georgia Bulldogs (6-1) were idle this week and remain ranked No. 5 in the AP Poll. Overall, it was a pretty uneventful weekend in college football, with the teams that were supposed to win winning their games, although No. 4 Alabama added some suspense by needing a last minute TD to break a tie and beat unranked South Carolina, 29-22.

The top six teams in this week's AP Poll remained the same as last week, from No. 1 Ohio State down through Indiana, A&M, 'Bama, and Georgia to No. 6 Oregon. One-loss Ole Miss (go, Georgia!) beat No. 13 Oklahoma by eight and were moved up from No. 8 to 7, and No. 7 Georgia Tech, although they beat unranked Syracuse by over three TDs and remain undefeated, were dropped from 7 to No. 8. Go figure.

Other than that, the rest of the poll was pretty boring. No. 10 Vanderbilt beat No. 15 Missouri and were moved up to No. 9. Carson Beck managed not to throw any interceptions for Miami last weekend and beat unranked Stanford, but despite the win, the Hurricanes were dropped from 9 down to No.10 because fuck those guys, that's why. .

No. 19 Louisville (6-1), current holders of the lineal championship belt and Georgia's 2021 and 2022 championship rings, beat unranked Boston College and moved up to No. 16. No way the BC Eagles were getting the belt and rings. 

The No. 5 Georgia Bulldogs play the unranked Florida Gators (3-5) this weekend in Jacksonville, the annual rivalry game and "the world's largest outdoor cocktail party." The Gators had the belt and rings at the start of the season and in a better world, would have hung on to them so that Georgia could win them this weekend, but we don't live in that better world, do we? Georgia is favorites by 7½ points.