What to watch: Week 5 college football viewing guide

The biggest game of the season (so far) is upon us.

No. 2 Georgia visits No. 4 Alabama in the first top-five matchup of the season on Saturday night. It’s the first game between the schools without both Kirby Smart and Nick Saban on the sidelines since Mark Richt was coaching Georgia in 2015 and the first game against Georgia for an Alabama team coached by someone other than Saban since 2003 when Mike Shula was leading Alabama.

New Alabama coach Kalen DeBoer has a strong record to uphold against the Bulldogs too. Overall, Alabama is 43-26-4 against Georgia dating back to 1895 and Saban’s winning percentage was even better. His teams lost to Georgia just twice. The first came in his first season in 2007. The other came in January of 2022, when Georgia knocked off Alabama for the national championship.

Overall, Saban’s teams were 8-1 against Georgia during his tenure and 6-1 against Smart. Saturday night is a great opportunity for Georgia to reverse that trend.

Here are the five biggest games of Week 5. All times are Eastern and all odds are from BetMGM.

Time: Noon | TV: ESPN | Line: Kansas State -4.5 | Total: 55.5

Both teams enter this one after losses to open conference play against teams from Utah. The Cowboys lost 22-19 at home to a Utah team that didn’t have Cameron Rising under center and Kansas State got blasted by BYU in the second and third quarters in the midst of a 38-9 loss against the Cougars.

Oklahoma State really needs to get All-American RB Ollie Gordon II going sooner rather than later if it wants to get back to the Big 12 title game. Gordon has 73 carries for 258 yards and four scores through four games this season. And that stat line is even misleading. After rushing 28 times for 126 yards and three scores against South Dakota State to open the season, Gordon hasn’t broken the 50-yard mark or…

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Publish date : 2024-09-26 14:00:13

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