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BYU traveled to Coastal Carolina following Liberty's inability to play the Chanticleers due to COVID-19 issues and Coastal earned a signature win over the Cougars. Marshall got shut out by Rice in an embarrassing defeat in Conference-USA play, and most conference championship game spots have been decided as we enter the final week of the... Continue Reading →
A scheduled bye week for Marshall and a plethora of cancellations meant that only one of our top six teams from a week ago played this week. The games we did get still provided great entertainment, from Buffalo running back Jaret Patterson's record-breaking Saturday, to the UCF-USF shootout on Friday night, to Central Michigan's improbable... Continue Reading →
Tulsa completed another improbable comeback, Cincinnati and UCF produced a thrilling matchup and Coastal Carolina earned a huge win over Appalachian State to all but lock up a spot in the Sun Belt Championship Game. The MAC hit its halfway point, every other conference is more than halfway done, and we are less than a... Continue Reading →
Western Michigan and Toledo played to one of the craziest finishes in college football in the last five years, Tulsa completed a comeback from down 21-0 and 17 points at halftime to beat SMU and get ranked for the first time since 2010 and we're through another week of college football. SMU was our highest... Continue Reading →
Our top three Group of 5 teams from a week ago continued to dominate. Liberty won as 17-point underdogs at Virginia Tech, earning legitimacy points as VT was the first good team on Liberty's schedule. Further down our rankings, Memphis and Louisiana struggled in what were supposed to be easier games for them. And what... Continue Reading →
Cincinnati continued dominating, Coastal Carolina recorded a historic blowout and the MAC is back this week. Elsewhere, UCF beat Houston to get back to above .500 in American conference play, UAB continued to struggle as the Blazers dropped to 4-3 following a loss to Louisiana Tech and Boise State took down Air Force ahead of... Continue Reading →
The Mountain West has returned, giving us a chance to start gushing over how good Boise State looked in its season-opening win over Utah State. Cincinnati and SMU played what will likely be the biggest Group of 5 game this year, leaving us with a clear impression of how the top of the AAC looks.... Continue Reading →
Here in 2020, the ACC, Big 12, SEC, Conference-USA, AAC, and Sun Belt are in Week seven while the Big Ten, Pac-12, Mountain West, and MAC have yet to start play. So what week is it? I don't know, so for the purposes of future scheduling of these rankings, we'll call this week 1. It's... Continue Reading →
As we continue our series of Hall of Fame ballot previews with the MLB season shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic, we take a look at the career of Matt Cain. Cain was a three-time All-Star who spent his entire career with the Giants, who won three World Series titles during his career. To... Continue Reading →
As we continue our series of Hall of Fame ballot previews with the MLB season shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic, we take a look at the career of Jacoby Ellsbury. Ellsbury won two World Series during his career, both with the Red Sox. To view the full series, click here. Why is he on... Continue Reading →
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