Week 7 was a week of close calls. It began Friday night, when No. 7 Louisville needed a roughing the kicker penalty to secure its win over Duke. It picked up right away on Saturday as NC State took No. 3 Clemson to overtime before the Tigers prevailed. And it lasted through the end of the night as No. 2 Ohio State and No. 8 Wisconsin went to OT before the Buckeyes eked out the win.
All three of those prime College Football Playoff contenders survived—just barely—to spend another week in the hunt for conference titles and national semifinal berths.