Tempted to toss the loser of the Florida State-Ole Miss game out of the College Football Playoff? Ready to crown Bama national champs after a win over USC (8 p.m. ET, ABC)?Throw some cold water on those hot takes.History reminds us Week 1 is a mirage; that come late November, all of these winners (and losers) will look completely different. After reviewing the first week of each of the past two seasons in the CFP, here are five reminders to help keep perspective in spite of so many games of such magnitude:Dont overreact to a Texas A&M winIn each of the past two seasons, the Aggies have wowed us -- for a skinny minute -- in Week 1. Remember 2014? Kenny Trill? A&M hammered No. 9 South Carolina 52-28 -- in Columbia! There was only one problem: The Gamecocks werent even close to being a top-10 team and finished unranked, deflating what appeared to be a statement win. Last year, A&M beat No. 15 Arizona State 38-17. No matter. It was irrelevant after the Aggies finished the regular season with four losses and quarterbacks Kyle Allen and Kyler Murray transferred. Dont be surprised if Texas A&M wins on Saturday against No. 16 UCLA. Be surprised if it amounts to something.Get your body clocks readyEven former CFP committee chair Jeff Long can joke about this phrase, which became associated with Stanfords shocking 16-6 loss to Northwestern last year in a game which kicked off at 11 a.m. local time. I think we would not be doing our due diligence if we didnt recognize that that team was playing at 9:00 a.m. Pacific, Long said on Nov. 10 when asked if Stanfords body clocks were really a factor. So get ready: Somebody is going to lose unexpectedly again, and when they do -- remember, its not over. Stanford went on to lose to Oregon too and was still in contention for the top four.Withhold judgment on OklahomaIn 2014, the Sooners were ranked No. 4 in the Associated Press preseason poll and finished the season unranked by the selection committee. Last year, Oklahoma was No. 19 in the preseason poll -- and finished in the CFP semifinals at No. 4. The Sooners fate will not be determined by Saturdays result against Houston (12 p.m. ET, ABC). Oklahoma could go on to run the table, beat a top-ranked Ohio State along the way and earn a spot in the CFP just as it did last year in spite of a loss to Texas. A win is the first step in a long road to getting back to a semifinal.An LSU win over Wisconsin can be quickly forgottenIn 2014, LSU beat No. 14-ranked Wisconsin 28-24 -- and then lost at home to an unranked Mississippi State team three weeks later. It was only the beginning of the Tigers unraveling that year, as they went on to lose to Auburn, Alabama and Arkansas that 8-5 season. So it goes in the SEC West. If LSU can win in Lambeau Field on Saturday (3:30 p.m ET, ABC), the Tigers will obviously pad their résumé with a quality nonconference win, but it will only matter if theyre relevant in the SEC race this time around.Alabama is the lone preseason favorite with staying powerThe only consistent team from start to finish in the playoff era has been the Tide, which has been ranked in the top four in each of the past two AP preseason polls and managed to finish in the top four of the committees rankings both years. No. 1 Alabama is again a CFP front-runner heading into Saturdays game against USC. Until proven otherwise, expect the Tide to remain relevant through the SEC schedule. Patrick Roy Jersey . What general manager Dave Nonis called "short and productive" negotiations ended with Kessel signing a US$64-million, eight-year contract on Tuesday. 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Even without the defending Olympic champions, the proof is right there on the ice: The U.S. has become the world power in ice dance.For the second straight year, three American couples have made the Grand Prix Final, which starts Friday in Marseille, France. U.S. champions and world silver medalists Maia and Alex Shibutani; 2015 national champs Madison Chock and Evan Bates, and three-time U.S. bronze medalists Madison Hubbell and Zach Donohue make up half the field -- for a second consecutive season.That sure impresses Charlie White, who with Meryl Davis became the first Americans to win ice dance gold at the Olympics, in 2014.Im not sure theres a better way to show the dominance of U.S. ice dancing better than having three teams making the Grand Prix Final two years in a row, he said. Its been amazing to see these three teams proving themselves time and time again at these stacked Grand Prix events.The experience gained, and consistency shown by this group of U.S. dance teams will certainly help their chances at giving their best showing at an event like the Olympics.Chock and Bates and the Shibutanis already have been down that road, finishing eighth and ninth in Sochi. Since then, their performances have been on a steady upward course, with the brother and sister Maia and Alex Shibutani winning nationals this year and finishing second at worlds. Chock and Bates took the U.S. title in 2015 and finished just behind the Shibutanis at this years worlds.All of todays couples owe credit to their -- uh, foreskaters? -- for taking ice dancing from the outcast stepchild in American figure skating to the top of the world. And they know it.I think it is sort of a product of the growth of the sport in our country spearheaded by Meryl and Charlie, and before them, Tanith (Belbin) and Ben (Agosto), Peter (Tchernyshev) and Naomi (Lang), and back to Liz (Punsalan) and Jerod (Swallow), said Bates, who teamed with Chock in 2011. We have been working on this for a long time, the last few decades, really. Now, in the world of ice dancing we are recognized as the top country.Added the Shibutanis: Earlier in our career, we trained with both Meryl and Charlie, and Tanith and Ben. Their accomplishments have been inspiring and have done a lot to improve the visibility of ice dance in the U.S. They are our friends and they have always been very supportive and encouraging. We are working to continue to build on what they started.For decades, Ruussians dominated ice dance, in part because of the coaching available in the Soviet Union and then in Russia.dddddddddddd Other than the brilliant Britons Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean and their mesmerizing performances in the 1980s, it was rare for anyone else to make frequent visits to the medals podium.Today, it is rare when an American couple does not win a gold, silver or bronze.I think that the U.S. has a particularly great developmental program that has created an abundance of talented athletes representing Team USA on the international circuit, Hubbell said. For ice dance in particular, U.S. Figure Skating has made huge strides in becoming one of the most competitive federations. I have had the support of U.S. Figure Skating for over 10 years now, and I grew up training and competing with Chock and Bates, and the Shibutanis. I believe it is the supportive, competitive environment that we have grown up with that has pushed us to have three teams in the Grand Prix Final for the second season consecutively.Also pushing are the coaches, some of which were trained in the Russian systems. Igor Shpilband, then Natalia Linichuk and Gennadi Karponosov, worked with Belbin and Agosto. Marina Zoueva guided Davis and Whites careers.Shpilband works with Chock and Bates, and the Shibutanis work with Zoueva.No. 1, you have to credit the coaching, said White, who also won Olympic silver in 2010 and took six straight U.S. championships with Davis. Skaters can work themselves into the ground all day every day, but unless they have the choreography and expertise of top-level coaches, that work will not pay off.But theres more to it than that, Davis insisted. When the three U.S. duos compete in the Grand Prix Final against 2010 Olympic champions and 2014 runners-up Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir of Canada -- the other surpassing ice dance couple of the last decade -- plus Frances Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron, the two-time defending world champs, the Americans will bring something else to the rink.No. 2 is the incredible hard work and dedication to the sport by the U.S. ice dance teams, White says. Coming from the history that we have in the sport internationally, I think U.S. ice dancers always feel they have something to prove. And right now they are proving themselves time and time again. ' ' '