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It seems like so very long ago that I sat down to innocently watch an NFL pregame show and was confronted by the harrowing words COMING UP: ODELL SOUNDS OFF ON THE GIANTS in the corner of my TV screen. After all, so much has happened since that moment: There have been two New York Giants losses, each one painful in its own way. There has been a sprawling seven-part Instagram video series from the rapper Lil Wayne (“Little Wayne” as pronounced by Eli Manning) addressing topics like Frank Isola, an incarcerated uncle, and Manning family workouts. There has been a heated encounter with a cooling fan, a possible institutional cover-up involving dehydration, the sparkling performance of perhaps the most exciting element of the Giants’ future, and the brutal demise of the franchise’s core. And yet somehow, all of this has taken place in less than a week, as if the Giants are aging in dog years, which would be fitting, because everything about the team lately is extremely woof. Odell Be

The Amway Coaches Poll top five looks a bit different this week, even though all the teams won over the weekend. Alabama easily retained the top spot following a non-conference win against UL-Lafayette. The Crimson Tide again claimed 61 of 64 first-place votes. Fellow SEC contender Georgia moved up to the No. 2 spot, however, and Ohio State was elevated to No. 3 after its comeback win at Penn State. Those two nudged ahead of Clemson. The Tigers were able to survive an upset bid from previously undefeated Syracuse, and they continued to receive a pair of No.-1 votes. But the Tigers lost enough points on some ballots to slip to No. 4 overall. Oklahoma and LSU held steady in the fifth and sixth positions, respectively, after conference wins on Saturday. Stock up: Notre Dame. It was only a one-position gain, but it was a big spot as the Fighting Irish pulled away from Stanford to climb to No. 7. Stock down: Stanford. The Cardinal will still be a player in the Pac-12 hunt, but the