College football’s Week 6 left the sport with a new No. 1, a few bruised reputations and plenty of chaos still waiting in Week 7. Some teams walked away with huge momentum. Others spent Saturday night wondering how things went sideways so fast.
Kentucky was one of the biggest stories of the weekend, and not just because the Wildcats are now 5-1. Will Stein’s group picked up its second ranked win of the season by once again leaning into the kind of overtime decision that makes coaches sweat and opponents furious. Kentucky’s fifth win came the same way its fourth did: by going for 2 and trusting Stein to live on the edge.
Kenny Minchey kept the ride going, too. The Notre Dame transfer has steadily gotten better since a rough day against Alabama and has now helped Kentucky win four straight. After the game, Stein said Minchey even called his own number on the decisive 2-point conversion.
Nebraska, meanwhile, delivered another painful entry in its long history of almosts against ranked teams. The Huskers had No.
7 Indiana on the ropes and led 17-6 with just 12 minutes left after Anthony Colandrea raced 39 yards for a touchdown. From there, everything unraveled in a hurry.
Indiana answered immediately with a 75-yard touchdown from Josh Hoover to Nick Marsh, Nebraska went three-and-out, and the Hoosiers then marched 80 yards in five plays to grab a 20-17 lead. The whole collapse happened in less than five minutes of game time.
That loss extended Nebraska’s skid to 32 straight defeats against ranked opponents, with one-third of them coming under Matt Rhule.
At the top of the sport, Georgia has moved into the No. 1 spot after its road win over Alabama and Texas’s loss to Oklahoma. Gunner Stockton delivered one of his best outings, going 18-for-22 for 249 yards with a touchdown and an interception, while also adding 12 rushing yards and a rushing score.
The Bulldogs now have one of the season’s best victories and, by SEC standards, a pretty manageable path the rest of the way. Their toughest remaining games are at No.
9 Ole Miss and at home against No. 13 Mizzou, with Auburn, Florida, South Carolina and Georgia Tech also still on the slate.
Georgia needs just four more wins to reach the College Football Playoff.
Texas A&M’s season has gone the other direction. Mike Elko’s team is now 3-3 overall and 1-3 in SEC play after last year’s 11-0 start, and Saturday’s 27-6 loss to Mizzou only made things worse.
Elko also stirred the pot afterward with a pointed shot at the fan base, saying, “There’s a difference to me between the fan base and social media,” and adding, “So, there’s one group that I really don’t care much about. Billy’s cesspool can go be Billy’s cesspool.
Our fan base stay with us.”
“Billy’s cesspool,” refers to Billy Liucci, the owner of TexAgs.com. Elko’s comment drew an immediate response from Liucci, who wrote: “Going to show restraint here (for now) and get back to answering questions, but the head coach losing 27-6 then immediately calling out an incredibly large portion of the loyal but also understandably frustrated fan base was a wildly unnecessary misstep.”
UCLA also came out of Week 6 with its undefeated record intact, and the Bruins did it with defense. Bob Chesney’s team grabbed its first win in Eugene since 2004 by forcing seven turnovers against Dylan Raiola, including five fumbles and two interceptions. It was a wild, disruptive performance from a group that completely wrecked Oregon’s rhythm.
The Bruins weren’t clean everywhere, though. Nico Iamaleava struggled and left the second half with a lower-body injury after also taking a punch to the neck.
UCLA averaged just 3 yards per carry, went 4-for-16 on third down and turned it over three times itself. Still, the win keeps the Bruins among the nine undefeated teams left in FBS after six weeks, and their hardest game is now behind them.
Their remaining schedule: Wisconsin, Michigan State, Nevada, at Minnesota, Illinois, at Michigan and No. 19 USC.
Texas took one of the toughest hits of the weekend. The Longhorns were outgained by Oklahoma by 150 yards, but the Sooners were still the ones celebrating after a 27-24 upset that knocked Texas off the No. 1 perch.
Oklahoma was just 2-for-13 on third down, yet Texas couldn’t cash in enough to avoid the loss. The Longhorns now have the highest three-and-out rate among SEC teams, and Arch Manning continues to underwhelm.
The bad stretch carried over into Sunday. Colin Simmons said, “We definitely beat ourselves.
Only Texas can beat Texas.” Then Texas lost another battle on the recruiting trail when Easton Royal, the No.
1 WR prospect in the country, flipped his commitment from Texas to Florida and chose Jon Sumrall’s squad after being pledged to Texas since November of 2025. Texas still has road games at LSU, Mizzou and Texas A&M, along with home dates against Ole Miss and Mississippi State, and the Longhorns are running out of room to sort it out.
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Georgias 20-17 win over Alabama had plenty of football to unpack, from a strong rushing performance led by Dwight Phillips Jr. and Bo Walker to Gunner Stocktons work through the air. But the scene that lingered after the final whistle had nothing to do with the scoreboard. Near the stadium tunnel, Georgia linebacker Raylen Wilson was confronted by an Alabama fan in an ugly postgame incident that quickly drew attention beyond the usual chaos of a big SEC night.
Reporter Reggie Chatman Jr. captured the exchange on video, calling it an unusual moment as the fan physically attacked Wilson by slapping and shoving his helmet. Witnesses said the fan also used a racially degrading term during the encounter, turning what should have been a hard-fought rivalry win into a jarring flashpoint. For Georgia, the victory still counts, but the aftermath was a reminder that the line between passion and misconduct can disappear in a hurry. [Read more 🡒]
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For Georgia, the larger issue is not what was said so much as how it became public in the first place. Coaches guard those pregame and postgame moments closely because they are meant for the locker room, not the timeline, and the appearance of secret recordings adds an uncomfortable layer to a victory that should have been remembered for the result on the field. The Bulldogs are left with a big win still fresh in the record book, even as the focus shifts to how and why those videos surfaced at all. [Read more 🡒]
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Georgia coaches responded by telling players to keep their helmets on as they exited, a reminder of how quickly a postgame moment can turn tense after a heavyweight matchup. No injuries were reported, but the episode added a sour edge to an otherwise significant road victory, and it left Georgia heading home with one more thing to remember from Tuscaloosa beyond the result itself. [Read more 🡒]