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How the College Football Playoff landscape shifts after Week 5's ranked showdowns and Georgia's scare

For more than three quarters Saturday night, it looked as if the top four in the College Football Playoff chase would finally get an honest-to-goodness shakeup, as Georgia trailed Mizzou for the majority of what should have been a ho-hum SEC East game.

Instead, the defending national champs escaped -- yes escaped -- the now 2-3 Tigers with a win. It was the second straight Saturday that Georgia struggled against an unranked opponent, as they beat Kent State 39-22 in Week 4.

The Bulldogs are still favored to win the East.