College football rankings 2022: Projected Week 5 AP Top 25 after Oklahoma upset, USC survives, Ohio State cruises

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2. Alabama Crimson Tide

The Crimson Tide allowed Vanderbilt to score on them for the first time since 2007, so clearly Alabama is absolutely washed.

In all seriousness, the SEC opener for Nick Saban and his team was never going to be too difficult of a test and it showed. Bryce Young was dicing up the Commodores defense while Will Anderson Jr. simply lived in the backfield making plays throughout the game. And though it took him a while to get involved, Jahmyr Gibbs continued to look like an electricity factory.

We’ll see a bit more what Bama is made of when they face Arkansas next week — though the Hogs might be a tad overrated — but this was as good as you could hope they’d look in a warmup game against a team like Vandy.

1. Georgia Bulldogs

Someone forgot to bring the coffee for the Georgia team bus in the morning. That’s about the only explanation that makes sense for the effort that Kirby Smart’s team put forth on Saturday against a Kent State team that, frankly, the Bulldogs should’ve dominated in every facet of the game. Instead, the reigning national champs were up just 12-10 at one point in the first have and then never fully pulled away in a 39-22 victory.

There’s a very good chance that this was a sleepwalk through a game that UGA knew they could win with the Dawgs beginning conference play next week. But even still, the dominance that Stetson Bennett IV, Brock Bowers, and this entire team had shown prior to Saturday was unreal. So it was undoubtedly jarring to see the team so out of sync.

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