While there weren’t truly any season-changing results at the top of the rankings, it was a weekend of close calls across college football.
Alabama hung on after keeping Florida out of the endzone after a potential game-tying two-point conversion. Clemson similarly needed to stuff Georgia Tech on a goalline stand to avoid an upset against the yellow Jackets. Oklahoma, Ohio State, Penn State, and Notre Dame were all also top 15 teams who played a tight game or looked iffy in an eventual win.
North Carolina eventually pulled away, but they were part of that too.