Week six of the 2022 college football season offered some rare stability as no Top 10 team lost, but still featured plenty of excitement. The race for the College Football Playoff is wide open Washington Commanders Jackets heading into the second half of the season, and though the blue bloods are well-represented, there are some new bloods knocking on the door as well.While fans in Eugene, Austin, and South Bend are wishing the 12-team playoff was already here, 13 Power Five teams head into mid-October with undefeated records. The next few weeks will sort out the contenders from the pretenders before the November stretch run. Now, lets get to the Week six action:TCU 38 Kansas 31This past week was the greatest in modern Kansas football history, as the Jayhawks knocked off Iowa State last weekend to move to 5-0, announced $300 million in stadium renovations, and hosted for the first time in their history. A win over TCU on Saturday would have been icing on the cake, but unfortunately the Horned Frogs didnt get the memo. Max Duggan threw for 308 yards and 3 TDs, Quentin Johnston was unguardable, with 14 catches for 206 yards, and though the TCU defense surrendered 540 yards, they stepped up with timely stops when they needed to make them. Lance Leipolds Kansas team proved to the nation that they are for real, but you can bet the Jayhawks wont be satisfied with the moral victory. Kansas will be kicking itself for the points it left on the field QB Jalon Daniels fumbled at the goal-line, Jacob Borcila mi sed a 31-yard field goal, and though backup QB Jason Bean led the Jayhawk offense to all 4 Washington Commanders Hats touchdown drives, his third quarter interception with the score tied 17-17 gave the Horned Frogs a short field that they turned into a TD and a 24-17 lead they never relinquished. There are no easy games in a deep Big 12 this season, and next weekend Kansas travels to Norman to take on a wounded Oklahoma team while TCU hosts Oklahoma State in a battle that could determine the Big 12 Championship. Alabama 24 Texas A&M 20With Bryce Young ruled out for the much-anticipated contest with Texas A&M, the Crimson Tide did everything po sible to lose this game yet still found a way to win. Alabama turned the ball over 4 times, mi sed 2 field goals, and threw for just 111 yards, but Will Anderson and the Alabama defense stopped Texas A&M at the 2-yard line as time expired. Anderson didnt record a sack but racked up 8 of Alabamas 14 QB hurries and was a major reason that Haynes King averaged just 5.5 yards per attempt while completing just 54.3% of his pa ses. In contrast to past seasons, this Alabama team has already been in multiple close games, but the Tide have always responded. Trailing against Texas in Week 2, Alabama drove 61 yards for the game-winning field goal. Leading just 28-23 heading into the fourth quarter against Arkansas last week, Alabama answered with 239 fourth quarter yards to pull away 49-26. Then, against a resilient Aggie team this weekend, the Crimson Tide made the nece sary plays when they needed to. Still, Nick Saban knows that his team needs to get better fast with a road trip to explosive Tenne Sonny Jurgensen Jersey see on the docket next weekend. UCLA 42 Utah 32After a quiet 5-0 start, UCLA finally exploded onto the national scene this weekend with a 42-32 victory over Utah in a game that wasnt as close as the score indicated. In an era where quarterbacks transfer at the first sign of adversity, Dorian Thompson-Robinson stands out as an example of perseverance. In his 5th season as the starter in Westwood, DTR is completing 74.8 percent of his pa ses and has thrown 15 TDs against just 2 interceptions. On Saturday, Thompson-Robinson threw for 299 yards and 4 TDs, while Michigan transfer Zach Charbonnet rumbled for 198 yards and a TD on 22 carries. Most encouraging of all for Chip Kelly has to be the fact that the Bruins were the more physical team quite an achievement against Utah. UCLA heads into a well-deserved bye week before a ma sive trip to Eugene to take on Oregon on October 22nd. Beat the Ducks and the Bruins will be favored to head into their November 19th matchup against USC with an undefeated record. The road to the Pac-12 title runs through Los Angeles this year. McDONOUGHS MUSINGS~ I think the spate of early-season head coach firings is an unfortunate trend and one Washington Commanders T Shirts that can be unfair to the players in the locker room but it is interesting to see how each Power Five team that fired its coach has been galvanized by the move. Before firing the previous coach, these teams had combined to go 5-15, but since making the move are 6-3, including a 4-0 record this weekend (Colorado had a bye). Somewhere, Auburn and Texas A&M boosters are taking notes. Nebraska Beat Rutgers 14-13; 2-1 since Scott Frost was firedArizona State Beat Washington 45-38; 1-2 since Herm Edwards was firedGeorgia Tech Beat Duke 23-20; 2-0 since Geoff Collins was firedColorado Bye week; Have not played since Karl Dorrell was firedWisconsin Beat Wisconsin 42-7; 1-0 since Paul Chryst was fired~ I have a number of family members from Iowa who are big Hawkeye fans, and thus follow Iowa football fairly closely. Its hard to understate how abysmal the Iowa offense has been this year, and what is more bizarre is that Kirk Ferentz seems either totally unaware or totally unconcerned (it may have something to do with the fact that his son Brian is the offensive coordinator). Iowa lost 9-6 to Illinois on Saturday, dropping their season record to 3-3 borderline unfathomable when their defense ranks 3rd in the nation allowing 9.8 PPG. With the lo s, the Hawkeye offense reclaimed its spot as the last-ranked offense in the nation. ~ The most frustrating part for Hawkeye fans is that this isnt a new problem. If Iowas offense had scored 21 points in every game since 2017 (when Brian Ferentz started as OC), here Darrick Forrest Jersey s what their record would have been (actual record in parentheses):2017: 10-2-1 (8-5)2018: 10-3 (9-4)2019: 12-1 (10-3)2020: 6-1-1 (6-2)2021: 11-3 (10-4)2022: 5-1 (3-3)~ The Pac-12 hasnt had a CFP berth since Washington in 2016, but the league has a very real shot this season to end that streak. Both USC and UCLA are off to 6-0 starts, and Oregon has picked itself off the mat following the Week 1 lo s to Georgia with 5 wins in a row, scoring over 40 points in