Building the Beast: Loaded Week 5 slate—hello, Oregon-Penn State and Alabama-Georgia—will move draft boards
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🗓️ 24 September 2025
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
This is the sort of week that makes college football fanatics and NFL Draft nuts the Predator meme. Saturday is absolutely loaded with games that are monumental on the college football landscape filled with players who will be playing on Sundays next year. From Oregon at Penn State and Alabama at Georgia, to LSU at Mississippi and Notre Dame at Arkansas, to Ohio State at Washington and USC at Illinois, we're going to see a lot of future NFL players determining the outcomes of hugely impactful college football games. Dane Brugler and Dave Helman break it all down on this episode of The Athletic Football Show's Building the Beast.
Rundown (timestamps are approximate)
6:01 Game Ball: Miami EDGE Ruben Bain
12:38 Game Ball: Indiana QB Fernando Mendoza
26:45 Game Ball: Utah OTs Spencer Fano and Caleb Lomu
34:15 Game Ball: Oklahoma EDGE R Mason Thomas (yes, R without a period is part of his name)
43:23 Oregon-Penn State
57:26 Alabama-Georgia
1:08:22 The rest of the Week 5 Lookahead
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