It often goes underappreciated given the binary nature of sports just how slim the margin can be between winning and losing. Nowhere is that more true than at the highest level of college football , where the entire outcome of so many games can swing on a slipped tackle, a missed blocking assignment, a mishandled snap or whether a flag is thrown .

This is one reason the sport is so prone to overreaction, as observers try to draw grand conclusions from games whose outcomes might have been reversed had just an event or two gone differently. But then, sometimes even decisive results have too much read into them. Here are this week’s top five overreactions.

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