Welcome to Survival Saturday.
Each season, there is at least one of these, a day that makes the college football world’s collective heart beat uncontrollably from brunch to dinner.
Four top-25 teams won in overtime. Another three ranked teams claimed wins by three points or fewer. It started with Alabama’s (shaky) rebound from the Vanderbilt loss — a two-point win over South Carolina that wasn’t so pretty. It ended with Kansas State coughing up a big lead and then holding on for victory at Colorado.
In between, LSU, Penn State, Illinois and Tennessee all won in extra time.