If the predictions were always right and the favorites always won, the quartet of Alabama, Texas A&M, Texas and Oklahoma -- stars of what were supposed to be by far the two biggest games of Week 6 -- would be a combined 18-2 right now.
Instead, though Bama is 5-0 for the seventh straight year, the other three teams are 3-2 and unranked. And all four teams are battling through quarterback injury issues.
There are therefore two ways to look at Week 6. The pessimist would bemoan the fact that the two huge matchups we talked about all offseason are dampened significantly.