College Football Week 5, aka CHAOS week!

What a week! Never in the thousand year history of the Associated Press college football polls (length of time not guaranteed) had five of the top eight teams lost the same week, until THIS weekend! And it wasn't that every game was an upset: by our count, only twenty FBS games were won by the Vegas underdog (used only for establishing likelihoods of winning, never for gambling!). But the teams that lost! Oregon, Houston, BYU, Texas A&M, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, Stanford, Alabama, LSU (admittedly not a favorite), Cincinnati, Miami of Fl, USC east, USC west, UCLA... Absolute bedlam! (What? That's next week? No, that's the Red River Showdown...)

So without further ado, here are the MASSIVELY readjusted CFB tiers after week five...remember: order counts for nothing here - it's far too early to worry about separating #13 from #14!

Tier 1:
Newcomers Notre Dame, Arizona, Mississippi State and Ole Miss join stalwarts Florida State, Baylor, Auburn, and one-loss Alabama (who lost a close game on the road to another Tier 1 team).

Tier 2:
Undefeated TCU and Georgia Tech, plus one loss Oklahoma, Oregon, Oklahoma State, UCLA, Michigan State, and Texas A&M.

Tier 3:
Two-loss LSU gets in here (SEC West has its perks), alongside one loss Louisville, Penn State, Missouri, Georgia, Kansas State, Ohio State, and almost undefeated Nebraska.

Tier 4:
Poor 5-0 Marshall, playing Gordon Gee's "little sisters of the poor"! They are joined by 4-1 East Carolina, Arizona State, Oregon State, and (about to drop like a stone) BYU, and 3-2 Stanford, West Virginia, and Clemson.

Tier 5:
Now we reach some of the pretenders to the throne... One loss Utah, Duke, Rutgers and Kentucky, alongside two loss USC, Virginia Tech, Virginia, and Maryland.

Tier 6:
4-1 Air Force, California, Washington, Colorado State, Minnesota and Florida (we count the rained out Idaho game as an automatic win!), with 3-2 Wisconsin and Arkansas (both of Bret Bielema's best buddies!).

Tier 7:
Finally, the only ranking that goes 56 deep ends with Northern Illinois, Utah State, Northwestern, North Carolina State, South Carolina, Miami of FL, Boise State and Boston College.

And our famous bottom eight this week features the two teams who played in the Loser Bowl Saturday, where Miami of Ohio snapped its 21-game losing streak (highest in the nation) in a 42-41 "win" against UMass, who inexplicably ran a play with four seconds to go that wasn't designed to even reach the end zone from the 4 yard line, when a chip shot field goal would have won the game. They now have the longest losing streak, at 12. Winless teams joining them in the Bottom Eight include Kent State, Idaho, Troy, and SMU, who somehow managed 24 points against East Carolina, thereby  tripling their season point total! Also joining them are 1-4 Ball State and former FCS champs Appalachian State, who found it tough going in the FBS, even in the Sun Belt. (They've even lost to Michigan this year! That's hard to do!)