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College football Week 12 overreactions: Alabama can't hang with Georgia. Michigan State exposed as overrated.

It's easy to get too high or too low after each week's results in college football. Such is the nature of the sport that breeds emotional responses based on what happens positively or negatively every Saturday.

That's why we're here. A step back from the action can provide perspective that rightfully will temper some of the misplaced enthusiasm from positive performances and lift up those feeling down in the dumps after negative results from the weekend.

Week 12 had plenty of examples on both sides of the coin. Here are the five biggest overreactions from the action on the field.