Then there were 16. College football Week 5 helped eliminate several undefeated teams due to the inevitability of all-undefeated clashes taking away multiple teams’ perfect starts to the season. However, there were also teams — like Coastal Carolina and Georgia — who scraped by another week as undefeated teams.
Which 16 teams survived another week of college football thrills and spills, how did they make it through another week, and who is their next obstacle in the quest to go through the entire college football season undefeated?
College football teams undefeated after Week 5
Following Week 5, there are 16 college football teams that remain undefeated. As the weeks wind on toward the national championship in January, that number will get steadily whittled down as undefeated teams face off against each other.
Next week sees just one all-undefeated matchup, and it’s one that is crying out to be featured on ESPN’s College Gameday. Both undefeated teams have had an unexpected, almost fairytale rise to college football fame this season.
Who will emerge victorious when Sonny Dykes’ TCU Horned Frogs travel to Lawrence to face Lance Leipold’s Kansas Jayhawks led by emerging superstar Jalon Daniels in college football Week 5?
Can any team match 2019 LSU, 2018 Clemson, or 2013 Florida State and win a title without tasting defeat in the entire season? These are the contenders following college football Week 5.
Clemson Tigers
- Record: 5-0
- Last game: 30-20 vs. NC State
- Next game: Oct. 8 at Boston College
Syracuse Orange
- Record: 5-0
- Last game: 59-0 vs. Wagner
- Next game: Oct. 15 vs. NC State
Kansas Jayhawks
- Record: 5-0
- Last game: 14-11 vs. Iowa State
- Next game: Oct. 8 vs. TCU
Oklahoma State Cowboys
- Record: 4-0
- Last game: 36-25 @ Baylor
- Next game: Oct. 8 vs. Texas Tech
TCU Horned Frogs
- Record: 4-0
- Last game: 55-24 vs. Oklahoma
- Next game: Oct. 8 at Kansas
Penn State Nittany Lions
- Record: 5-0
- Last game: 17-7 vs. Northwestern
- Next game: Oct. 15 at Michigan
Michigan Wolverines
- Record: 5-0
- Last game: 27-14 at Iowa
- Next game: Oct. 8 at Indiana
Ohio State Buckeyes
- Record: 5-0
- Last game: 49-10 vs. Rutgers
- Next game: Oct 8. at Michigan State
USC Trojans
- Record: 5-0
- Last game: 42-25 vs. Arizona State
- Next game: Oct. 8 vs. Washington State
UCLA Bruins
- Record: 5-0
- Last game: 40-32 vs. Washington
- Next game: Oct. 8 vs Utah
Georgia Bulldogs
- Record: 5-0
- Last game: 26-22 vs. Missouri
- Next game: Oct. 8 vs. Auburn
Tennessee Volunteers
- Record: 4-0
- Last game: 38-33 vs. Florida
- Next game: Oct. 8 at LSU
Alabama Crimson Tide
- Record: 5-0
- Last game: 49-26 at Arkansas
- Next game: Oct 8. vs. Texas A&M
Ole Miss Rebels
- Record: 5-0
- Last game: 22-19 vs. Kentucky
- Next game: Oct. 8 at Vanderbilt
Coastal Carolina Chanticleers
- Record: 5-0
- Last game: 34-30 vs. Georgia Southern
- Next game: Oct 8. at UL-Monroe
James Madison Dukes
- Record: 4-0
- Last game: 40-13 vs. Texas State
- Next game: Oct. 8 at Arkansas State