{"id":9353,"date":"2017-10-02T16:20:22","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T20:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosoncfb.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=9353"},"modified":"2025-09-13T16:17:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T20:17:12","slug":"week-five-in-college-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/2017\/10\/02\/week-five-in-college-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Things We Learned In College: Week Five in College Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s games certainly ended on a shocking note. Here are my thoughts on week five in college football:<\/p>\n<h1>Things We Learned In College: Week Five in College Football<\/h1>\n<h2>Georgia 41, Tennessee 0<\/h2>\n<p>Well I certainly didn&#8217;t see that coming. The Vols got off to a pretty bad start, throwing an interception on the very first play of the game. They held the Bulldogs to a field goal on that possession, but it was all downhill from there. The question is whether this was a bad enough loss to cost <strong>Butch Jones<\/strong>&#8211; already on a pretty warm seat- his job. It was the Vols&#8217; \u00a0 first shutout loss at home since 1994.<\/p>\n<p>Georgia, for their part, looks pretty good for a team that lost their starting QB in the opener. In the last two weeks, the Dawgs have outscored Mississippi State and Tennessee by a total of 72-3. Their defense held Tennessee under 100 yards rushing and passing. I think it&#8217;s safe to call Georgia the front runners in the SEC East at this point.<\/p>\n<h2>Florida State 26, Wake Forest 19<\/h2>\n<p>Who would have thought we&#8217;d be at week five in college football before Florida State got their first win? Granted, they had two games cancelled due to Hurricane Jose. But we came very close to the &#8216;Noles being winless going into week six. It took a TD pass from freshman quarterback <strong>James Blackman<\/strong> in the last minutes of play to secure the win for FSU. Going into this game, the Seminoles were unranked for the first time since 2011.<\/p>\n<h2>Florida 38, Vanderbilt 24<\/h2>\n<p>Speaking of the Sunshine State, Florida running backs scored five touchdowns against Vandy. The Gators didn&#8217;t have a rushing score from a running back in their previous eight games. The bad news is that quarterback <strong>Luke Del Rio<\/strong> broke his collarbone and is done for the year.<\/p>\n<h2>Alabama 66, Ole Miss 3<\/h2>\n<p>So you think the Tide was a bit ticked off about those upsets the last few years?<\/p>\n<h2>Clemson 31, Virginia Tech 17<\/h2>\n<p>I won&#8217;t say much about the game, because I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s been covered extensively, but the Hokies have the best entrance in college football. Judging by my Twitter feed, I&#8217;m not the only non-VT fan who gets goosebumps from Enter Sandman.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2017 FULL Enter Sandman Entrance - (12) Virginia Tech vs. (2) Clemson - 9\/30\/2017\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DkwedgEH3gs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The interesting thing about this game, to me, was that most of the stats were fairly even. The biggest difference was in the turnover margin- three for VT, none for Clemson.<\/p>\n<h2>Surprise of the Week<\/h2>\n<p>Obviously, it&#8217;s LSU 21, Troy 24. I literally don&#8217;t even know what to say, except that I don&#8217;t think this is what they had in mind when they fired <strong>Les Miles<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Can LSU put Mike the Tiger on the field on defense? Would that be a penalty?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So that was week five in college football. Thanks for reading, and remember to look for the LWOS Top 25 rankings later today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s games certainly ended on a shocking note. Here are my thoughts on week five in college football: Things We Learned In College: Week Five in College Football Georgia 41, Tennessee 0 Well I certainly didn&#8217;t see that coming. The Vols got off to a pretty bad start, throwing an interception on the very first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":945,"featured_media":9373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1479,2,35578,35587],"tags":[35,36,244,38,65,86,258,59,96,100,1249],"class_list":["post-9353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editorials","category-featured","category-georgia-bulldogs","category-tennessee-volunteers","tag-alabama-crimson-tide","tag-clemson-tigers","tag-florida-gators","tag-florida-state-seminoles","tag-georgia-bulldogs","tag-lsu-tigers","tag-ole-miss-rebels","tag-tennessee-volunteers","tag-vanderbilt-commodores","tag-virginia-tech-hokies","tag-wake-forest-demon-deacons"],"modified_by":"Michael Kovacs, ADMIN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/945"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78407,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9353\/revisions\/78407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}