Can anyone remember a first month of a season featuring so many meaty matchups of A-list programs? The answer is no, and Week 5 further maintains -- heck, accelerates -- this pleasing trend. Three top-10 conference matchups? That last happened in 1978. Heck, we haven't had that many top-10 matchups over one weekend in any season since 2002.
Only trouble is a matchup of ranked teams doesn't a classic game make. We've watched 12 of these so far and only one -- one! -- has been decided by seven or fewer points.
"It's been kind of a drag, eh?