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          Best of Week 5: An on-field wedding and and unbelievable one-handed grab

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          Turnover chain off the hook vs. Tar Heels (0:58)

          The Miami Hurricanes defense was lockdown against UNC, recording six turnovers and three touchdowns in the 47-10 rout. (0:58)

          • Dave Wilson, ESPN Staff WriterSep 30, 2018, 02:46 AM
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              Dave Wilson is a college football reporter. He previously worked at The Dallas Morning News, San Diego Union-Tribune and Las Vegas Sun.
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          Week 5 is here and we've got some really big games. As always, we'll be updating all day Saturday. Here we go.

          One and only

          We've already seen two Odell-like one-handed grabbed today. And they are both pretty great.

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          Johnson's leaping grab a catch-of-the-year candidate

          Trace McSorley tosses a 31-yard pass to Juwan Johnson, who leaps high and snags the ball with one hand.

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          Sam Houston State WR makes Odell-style catch

          Sam Houston State's Davion Davis leaps to make a tremendous one-handed catch for a 22-yard gain.

          But then Boise State's John Hightower's did the one-handed thing with one shoe.

          Love is in the air

          ESPN's Sam Khan Jr. makes his wedding announcement debut with this dispatch from the Texas Tech-West Virginia game in Lubbock:

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          Texas Tech fans say 'I do' on the field at halftime

          A couple exchange vows and are married during halftime of Saturday's Texas Tech game.

          For richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health, even if the Red Raiders are getting smoked...

          That was the scene during halftime at Jones AT&T Stadium. No. 25 Texas Tech was getting routed 35-10 by No. 12 West Virginia, but at least there were two happy Tech fans in the building, because it was their wedding day.

          At midfield. Of the Tech game.

          The ceremony came complete with the lucky couple dressed in standard wedding attire (bride in a white dress, groom in a suit), a wedding party, and Texas Tech mascot Raider Red walked the bride down the 50-yard-line to give her away. Vows were read as the couple held hands and the Goin' Band from Raiderland stood on the field, with the entire ceremony broadcast on the video board.

          As the groom kissed the bride, the stadium erupted in cheers ... one of the few times on Saturday that those dressed in red and black had a reason to do so up to that point.

          Only in Texas, y'all.

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          Beautiful stuff from Sam. Note that the Red Raiders, clearly inspired by the emotion of the day, scored 17 unanswered points in the second half to put a scare into West Virginia.

          Meanwhile, on College GameDay on Saturday morning, there was an engagement from Happy Valley!

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          Penn State fan proposes on GameDay

          A Penn State fan takes the leap and surprises his girlfriend with a marriage proposal on College GameDay.

          He meant to do that

          Georgia's Isaac Nauta allows his man to force a QB fumble, then picks up the ball on a bounce and takes off for a touchdown.

          The people's champ

          When Georgia Southern coach Tyson Summers was fired last year after an 0-6 start, the Eagles turned to assistant Chad Lunsford as interim to finish out the season. After losing his first three games, Lunsford led the Eagles to a 52-0 win over South Alabama and a 34-24 win at Louisiana-Lafayette, leading to this joyous, rasslin'-inspired People's Elbow on a folding chair.

          He got the full-time job two days later.

          This year, Georgia Southern is 2-1 with wins over South Carolina State and UMass, a 38-7 loss to Clemson, and faces 3-1 Arkansas State today at home (6 ET, ESPN+). Excitement around the program is clearly on the upswing, stoked by the grass-roots marketing Lunsford does, taking his #EaglesElbow around campus to get student organizations, like this fraternity, in on the action.

          And it's become contagious in Statesboro, with volleyball coach Dustin Wood even adopting it.

          That's cold

          Before the 2015 season, Dan Mullen's defensive coordinator, Geoff Collins, left Mississippi State to become the defensive coordinator at Florida, which Mullen derided as a "lateral move." Bulldog fans lapped it up like it was frozen custard or something.

          When Mullen left for his "dream job" at Florida, fans in Starkville remembered, and man, did a frozen custard shop throw that right back in his FACE.

          That is at least pretty clever, though. A couple of others were a little less subtle. A local company ordered 500 of these rather straightforward T-shirts and they sold out in a few days.

          And a coffee shop got in on the act with a little misdirection.

          Just repeat about 120 times

          Tulane beat Memphis 40-24 on Thursday night while also wearing new helmets with a giant rendition of their angry wave/face mascot thing. They're pretty darn cool, but look how much work they are for these nice equipment folks!

          The homer highway

          Before Texas A&M and Arkansas met at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, the Texas Department of Transportation clearly took sides, with fans seeing digital signs all over major roadways in the state.

          According to KAGS in Bryan, Texas, Marc Williams, deputy executive director for TxDOT, is an A&M alum from the class of 1990. He says they try to come up with creative signs to get attention and combat distracted driving. But what of the people taking pictures of the signs?

          He snuck a little rivalry zinger out there on Twitter, too.