You could go years and never see a regular season week go by without three Top 10 games. It's the first week of October, and it's not exactly a traditional time of year to be talking about Top 10 games, but in this case, we've got a tremendous amount of great action on the college gridiron in Week 5. Three games pitting six Top 10 teams against each other, and nine other Top 25 teams playing on the road against unranked teams. It's been a crazy season so far, but you ain't seen crazy until you see what's ahead this week!
College Football Week 5 Opening Odds at BookMaker.eu
Kansas at Texas Tech ( -28.5 )
Connecticut at Houston ( -28 )
Toledo at BYU ( -3.5 )
Stanford at Washington ( -3.5 )
Buffalo at Boston College ( -17.5 )
Marshall at Pittsburgh ( -1 )
Memphis at Ole Miss ( -15 )
Tulane ( -2 ) at Massachusetts
Minnesota at Penn State ( -3 )
Northwestern at Iowa ( -12 )
Rutgers at Ohio State ( -38.5 )
Kansas State at West Virginia ( -3.5 )
Virginia at Duke ( -4 )
Syracuse at Notre Dame ( -13 )
South Florida at Cincinnati ( N/A )
SMU at Temple ( -12.5 )
Old Dominion ( -9.5 ) at Charlotte
Middle Tennessee State ( -14.5 ) at North Texas
UTEP at Louisiana Tech ( -20 )
Florida Atlantic ( -5.5 ) at Florida International
Western Michigan ( -3 ) at Central Michigan
Northern Illinois at Ball State ( -3.5 )
Eastern Michigan at Bowling Green ( -4.5 )
Ohio ( -3 ) at Miami ( OH )
UCF at East Carolina ( -6 )
Akron ( -4 ) at Kent State
Purdue at Maryland ( N/A )
Miami ( -5.5 ) at Georgia Tech
Illinois at Nebraska ( -21 )
Wisconsin at Michigan ( -10.5 )
Louisville at Clemson ( -2.5 )
North Carolina at Florida State ( -12 )
Louisiana Monroe at Auburn ( -33.5 )
Navy at Air Force ( -7 )
Rice at Southern Miss ( -21.5 )
Wyoming at Colorado State ( -7 )
Kentucky at Alabama ( -34.5 )
Tennessee ( -3 ) at Georgia
Georgia State at Appalachian State ( -21 )
Florida ( -9.5 ) at Vanderbilt
Utah at California ( -1 )
Texas at Oklahoma State ( -3.5 )
Oregon State at Colorado ( -16.5 )
Wake Forest at N.C. State ( -9 )
Texas AM ( -16 ) at South Carolina
Arizona at UCLA ( -10 )
Arizona State at USC ( -8 )
Baylor ( -16.5 ) at Iowa State
Michigan State ( -7.5 ) at Indiana
Oklahoma ( -1 ) at TCU
Missouri at LSU ( -13.5 )
San Diego State ( -20 ) at South Alabama
Louisiana Lafayette ( -6.5 ) at New Mexico State
Troy ( -12 ) at Idaho
San Jose State at New Mexico ( -4.5 )
Utah State at Boise State ( -20.5 )
Oregon ( -1 ) at Washington State
Fresno State at UNLV ( -7 )
Nevada ( -6 ) at Hawaii
Games of the Week
Stanford at Washington – Friday 9 p.m. ET
With apologies to what's going to go down on Saturday in Ann Arbor, the top dogs in the Pac-12 make for a much more interesting game. The Stanford/Washington game is the first of the Top 10 battles of the weekend, and the fact that ESPN has this game on a Friday night is a coup.
Washington is laying 3.5-points, essentially stating that these two teams are on perfectly level terms with one another, but we aren't so sure that's the case. Stanford certainly has the best player on the field in Christian McCaffrey, but he's going against the best defense he's seen thus far this year.
U-Dub has certainly been more impressive than Stanford thus far offensively as well. Jake Browning is a fringe Heisman Trophy contender right now with his 14/2 TD/INT ratio through four games, and if he really shows out in this one, not only will his Huskies have a stake to a Top 5 position next week, but he'll state his claim to be a Heisman hopeful as well.
Louisville at Clemson – Saturday 8:00 p.m. ET
Three games this weekend can be Top 10 battles, but only one can be a Top 5 affair. Louisville could be the only team in America to have two wins over teams ranked in the Top 5 at the time it plays against them by the time this weekend is said and done with, and if that's how this plays out, it's hard to see how this team won't have a spot in the CFP even if it does lose to Houston late in the season.
The Cardinals and Tigers have literally everything on the line at this point. By no means is this an eliminator game, but for Louisville, a win would certainly seal up the ACC Atlantic Division already in just Week 5 with the team having played just two games in conference play. Deshaun Watson and Lamar Jackson surely could put on a show in this one.
Clemson, a team that is used to blowing teams away in Death Valley, is a favorite, but the line isn't convincing at -2.5.
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