Nate Bargatze opened his time on "College GameDay" by urging five-star quarterback Jared Curtis, a Nashville Christian senior star, to flip from Georgia to Vanderbilt. And Bargatze ended it by emphatically picking Vanderbilt to beat Missouri on Oct. 25 in a key SEC football game with College Football Playoff implications.

Clark Lea revealed on ESPN's "College GameDay" that he fasts three times a week during the Vanderbilt football season.

This was a hard-fought victory for Vanderbilt, which overcame a season-low offensive output and eight penalties to win this game. The Commodores of old would lose this game, but this is a new Vanderbilt with its sights on the College Football Playoff. And this team is off to the program’s best start since 1941 — and there’s nothing fluky about it.

Toughest remaining game: Nov. 15 at Pitt. Notre Dame is projected to win each of its remaining games, but this one is on the road against an ACC team above .500. The Irish entered Week 9 with the best chance in the country to win out (68.4%).

Excellent football in the SEC and a shakeup in the Group of Five playoff chase headlined the Week 9 college football weekend.

For the first time since 2008, College GameDay returned to Vanderbilt — and the Commodores made it count with a big win that put Nashville back in the national spotlight.

The Crimson Tide are building up some callouses this season. After a clutch win at Missouri, Alabama came back in the fourth quarter to beat South Carolina on Saturday. The Tide scored 15 points in the final 2:16 after recovering a LaNorris Sellers fumble following a game-tying TD.

On a day when college football didn't have many marquee matchups on paper, the sport delivered with some wild moments, as always.