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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Kentuckys LSU Celebration Came With A Price Fans Will Debate
Kentuckys overtime win over LSU had the kind of finish fans talk about all week, but the postgame rush came with a financial sting. The SEC fined the University of Kentucky $500,000 for violating the leagues competition area access policy after supporters stormed the field following the 35-34 victory, a celebration that underscored just how big the moment felt in Lexington.
The leagues updated penalty structure for 2025 made the hit even harder, and the rulebook leaves little room for interpretation when the visiting team and officials are still on the field. Fines can be waived if the crowd waits until both groups have left, but that did not happen here, leaving Kentucky to absorb the cost while the celebration itself remains part of the debate around how far is too far after a win like this. [Read more 🡒]
Kentucky Turned LSUs Sideline Basketball Stunt Into Pure Humiliation
LSU brought a little SEC theater to Kroger Field in 2026 with a sideline basketball hoop, borrowing a bit of the old Lane Kiffin-era flair that once turned Saturdays at Ole Miss into a running sideshow. The Tigers even got their dunking moment during the game, but Kentucky had the last laugh, rallying late to win and turning what looked like a novelty into part of the backdrop for a comeback the home crowd could savor.
Then came the kind of postgame detail that tends to live on in rivalry lore. One Kentucky fan allegedly made off with the basketball LSU had used for those dunks and took it to Bullitt County, a fittingly cheeky ending to a day when the Wildcats not only beat LSU on the field, but left the visitors without even the prop that helped set the tone. [Read more 🡒]
Kentuckys LSU Celebration Just Came With A Brutal Price
Kentuckys overtime escape against LSU had all the ingredients of a memorable fall Saturday, capped by a successful two-point conversion that sent the home crowd into a frenzy. The victory was the kind that usually lives on in program lore, and the scene afterward matched it, as thousands of students rushed the field in celebration.
The SEC, though, turned that moment into an expensive one for the Wildcats, levying a $500,000 fine for the access-to-competition-area violation. Under the leagues updated policy on field-storming incidents, the money will go to LSU, a reminder that even the biggest celebrations in the SEC can carry a harsh price tag. [Read more 🡒]