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What a season it's been for college football. This year has had many who follow the sport wondering if this was the wildest year the FBS has seen since 2007, when things went so off the rails that the Kansas-Missouri game was a top-3 matchup in the final week of the regular season. This week's... Continue Reading →
It's here. Conference titles are on the line this weekend as coaching changes and bowl game announcements swirl around to ensure attention stays on college football outside the championship fights. Oh, and Buffalo-Akron and New Mexico State-Valparaiso, just for fun. With the big battles staring us in the face, here's this week's Group of 5... Continue Reading →
Six undefeated teams lost in week 7, including the final two Group of 5 unbeatens in James Madison and Coastal Carolina. The flurry of upsets over the weekend led to a major shakeup in the AP Poll and produced major change in these rankings as well. The biggest notes for a Group of 5 team... Continue Reading →
It took just five games of being an FBS program for James Madison to get ranked when they slid in at No. 25 in this week's AP Poll. As the Dukes continue to cruise in their transition year, much of the rest of the Group of 5 is getting sorted into contenders, middle-of-the-road squads and... Continue Reading →
Five weeks into the 2022 college football season, and it feels like contenders are starting to pull away from the pack. It's time to start taking any undefeated team seriously, while one-loss teams will continue sorting themselves out as some go on runs while others fall off. For early surprises from the Group of 5,... Continue Reading →
Through the first four weeks of the college football regular season, the Group of 5 is already down to just two undefeated teams: Coastal Carolina and James Madison. By contrast, each Power 5 conference has at least three undefeated squads remaining. On the flip side, the MAC has more teams below .500 (8) than the... Continue Reading →
It was a relatively tame week of college football, with only three AP top 25 teams losing, all of them on the road and two against other ranked opponents. For the Group of 5, however, there was a good amount of mayhem with 11 of last week's top 15 losing, including each of the teams... Continue Reading →
The Sun Belt (#FunBelt) dominated headlines Saturday with three of its teams beating power 5 opponents including Marshall and Appalachian State earning the conference's first two wins over top-10 teams. Elsewhere in the Group of 5, things weren't as fun, especially with multiple MAC and Mountain West teams losing to FCS opponents. Here is where... Continue Reading →
College football is back with a thrilling opening weekend, because of course it was. As conferences and rules change, the product on the field stays wild, unpredictable and often downright ridiculous. Here is where the top 15 teams in the Group of 5 stand after the opening week (plus a few games a week early).... Continue Reading →
After correctly picking four of the five Group of 5 conference championship games, it's time to rank the top Group of 5 teams headed into bowl games. The obvious history made in this year's bowl selections was Cincinnati being the first Group of 5 team in the College Football Playoff, but some other history was... Continue Reading →
Murphy's Field 