Results every college football weekend inspire intense positive and negative responses. Here's our five overreactions from Week 8.

Games with ACC or Big Ten teams that involved three times worth of travel generally went quite well for the home teams in Week 8, as they finished 6-1 in contests against their cross-country visitors. The one exception was quite notable, as Rutgers ended up on the wrong side of Oregon's wrath in a 56-10 loss to an angry group of Ducks.

Boston College at No. 19 Louisville (-24.5) (7:30 p.m. ET, ACC Network) Vanderbilt thrived as the plucky underdog over the last two seasons, but now the Commodores are front and center as one of the major talking points of Week 9.

Alabama replaces Miami as a top-four seed in the College Football Playoff based on The Associated Press Top 25 released Sunday and Georgia Tech, Vanderbilt and BYU are on the mock bracket for the first time.

Vanderbilt has now registered multiple wins over teams ranked in the top 15 of the AP poll for the first time in school history, and already surpassed its preseason win total, which was 5.5. LSU, meanwhile, dropped 10 spots from No. 10 to No. 20, the largest fall of the week.

No. 18 Vanderbilt continued its stellar 2025 season with a 31-24 victory against No. 10 LSU, a win that improved the Commodores' record to 6-1. In a winning effort, Diego Pavia polished his Heisman Trophy resume with 246 total yards and three touchdowns — and,

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The 2025 college football season has officially surpassed the midway point of the regular season after the conclusion of a thrilling Week 8 slate. Among the games that will shape the College Football Playoff picture was the final matchup between No. 13 Notre Dame and No. 20 USC for the foreseeable future.