Florida can't lose?

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The Curse of No. 5 is back!
For a good percentage of the season, the top four in the S&P+ rankings has been pretty stable, but the No. 5 spot was all sorts of rickety.

Boise State’s early dominance produced a surge to No. 5, and the Broncos crashed and burned at Oklahoma State.
Mississippi State took the No. 5 spot from BSU and immediately got smoked at Kentucky.
Michigan took over, damn near lost to Northwestern, and fell two spots. A blessing, really.
Washington moved back into the top five, then gave serious consideration to losing to winless UCLA and fell to 10th.
Michigan took the No. 5 spot again and walloped Wisconsin, seemingly ending the curse. The Wolverines moved up to fourth last week, moving Ohio State to No. 5, and ... well ...

...the curse, it has re-awakened. [Checks new rankings] Sorry, Georgia. And just in time for GameDay and the Cocktail Party, too.

The Buckeyes fell three spots to eighth, cushioned only by the fact that there was decent separation between them and teams ranked ninth or worse.

So while the top four didn’t change, there was quite a bit of shuffling in the No. 6 to 17 range. Washington, Notre Dame, Wisconsin, and dominant Fresno State all moved up three spots, and Auburn’s solid win over Ole Miss allowed the Tigers to rise six spots to 17th. Ohio State, Penn State (which barely held off Indiana), and UCF (which dilly-dallied with ECU) all fell three spots.

That’s been the story of the season, huh? Alabama is laminated in the top spot, Clemson has been No. 2 for a while ... and just beneath the surface, weekly chaos has ensued.

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