Georgia-Bama, Texas-OU Headline Loaded Week 6 Slate — SkimNews
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- The SEC enters Week 6 with only three unbeaten league teams remaining (Alabama, Georgia, Texas) after 19 of 72 conference games, and at most two will survive Saturday's head-to-head matchups.
- Georgia is 2-7 against Alabama under Kirby Smart since 2017 (114-16 overall, 112-9 vs. everyone else), with the betting line having flipped to Bama -1.5 and Hurricane Isaias potentially affecting the game.
- Oklahoma ranks 112th in yards per play and points per drive and has committed 10 turnovers against an expected 5.3 based on fumble recovery and INT-to-breakup averages; the Sooners face No. 1 Texas as 7.5-point home underdogs.
- LSU has scored at least 35 points in four of five games and allowed 14 or fewer four times, but travels to Kentucky — which has already beaten Texas A&M and South Carolina — as an 8.5-point road favorite.
- UCLA leads the country in yards per carry behind Wayne Knight and Anthony Woods (8.4 YPC combined) but is an 11.5-point underdog at No. 13 Oregon, its first top-13 test after starting 4-0 against lighter competition.
- Nebraska is 5-0 and hosts No. 7 Indiana as a 7.5-point underdog; the Cornhuskers haven't beaten an AP top-7 team since a 39-38 win over Michigan State in 2015.
- USC and Penn State both enter Saturday's White Out on two-game losing streaks, with USC's defense ranked 113th in points allowed per possession despite having faced only one SP+ top-50 offense.
Why it matters: Three SEC helmet games will shrink the conference's unbeaten pool to at most two by Sunday, directly shaping the College Football Playoff committee's top-four calculus. Indiana-Nebraska serves as the first credibility test for the unbeaten Cornhuskers, while UCLA-Oregon determines whether the Bruins' dominant ground game travels against elite Big Ten competition.
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