Another college football weekend featured a handful of big victories and head-scratching results, shaking up the polls, our rating systems, and the teams best positioned to contend for the national championship. Alabama's crushing defeat of Georgia underscored the preseason (and unwavering, according to our numbers) title aspirations of the Crimson Tide. However, Arizona State's victory over UCLA and Florida's win over Ole Miss were results that ran counter to our expectations, and each of those teams made moves up and down the FEI ratings as a result.
The victories by the Sun Devils and Gators can both be categorized as wins that featured success in all three phases of the game.