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It was another great weekend of college football, and our Group of 5 Ranked Matchup of the Week (very unofficial) turned out to be a great game. That, for those of you who missed last week's rankings (which you can read here), was the Ohio at Marshall game. There was plenty of other exciting football this... Continue Reading →
It was another wild weekend of college football. We saw a few teams on this list get throttled, a few excelled, and a lot of teams turned in performances that were just good enough. There were also two teams on the bubble last week for beating a Power 5 opponent who then struggled with an... Continue Reading →
Week one saw a mix of nothing-to-prove games and some Group of 5 teams knocking off Power 5 opponents. There were also some embarrassing losses and concerningly close wins in games that should have been easy wins for some teams, but through one week, not much has changed as far as our perception of most... Continue Reading →
Here we go. It's time for another season of college football, and while a lot of people focus on the teams vying for a National Championship, it's important to remember the smaller conferences and think about their division races and conference championship hunts and watch out for teams to take down a Power 5 conference... Continue Reading →
Since 1989, when the rankings expanded to a top 25, there have been an average of just over 9 teams ranked in the preseason poll to end the year unranked, including usually 3 or 4 of the top 15 that tend to slip out of the rankings by year's end. So while it would be... Continue Reading →
Big East football was the biggest casualty of the 2010-2014 NCAA conference realignment period, as the conference that had been founded around basketball talent had worked their way to being a major football conference before some of their top programs had left when Miami, Virginia Tech and Boston College left for the ACC in 2004-2005.... Continue Reading →
It's 1989. 25 out of 106 schools playing FBS (then Division 1-A) football find themselves not in a conference. By today's standards, any of those teams not named Notre Dame wouldn't have a shot at national prominence. It's been that way since either 1993, when Penn State joined the Big Ten, or 1996, when Cincinnati,... Continue Reading →
We've hit the end of 2018. Bowl games are over, the early signings have been done, coaches have changed, and everyone's focused on recruiting and getting ready for 2019. So that leaves us with the final rankings for this season, just like the final AP Poll to summarize what teams were the best this year.... Continue Reading →
One last huge weekend in College Football is over. We now know who's going to the playoff, and the full bowl game layout. With the conference championships over, we'll briefly touch on one or two key figures for each team and look ahead at their bowl game. Below the rankings, we'll recap the group of... Continue Reading →
The most common idea for a future College Football format is 4 16-team superconferences. However, I'm not a huge fan of simply taking the current major conferences and just eliminating one (most people kill the big 12), and there are currently 64 teams in the major conferences, which doesn't leave a spot to add Notre... Continue Reading →
Murphy's Field 