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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 →
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 →
We've reached the end of college football's 150th season (151st? It was branded as "College Football 150" but starting in 1869 would make this year 151). The game has changed a lot since 1869, and "Group of 5" has only become a term in the past ten years. The conference that put six teams in... Continue Reading →
Congratulations to Memphis for earning the Group of 5's spot in the Cotton Bowl this year, and congratulations to Florida Atlantic, Miami (OH), Boise State, and Appalachian State on their conference championships as well. There's a lot more to a season than a conference championship, though, and we still have a top 15 that reflects... Continue Reading →
It was a wild final week of the regular season, with a few conference races taking unexpected final turns. For some teams, this week brought jubilation from a berth in their conference championship game, a win over a rival, bowl eligibility secured, or multiple of those things. For others, this week brought heartbreak and/or questions... Continue Reading →
We went from one clinched division in the Group of 5 to six this week and the MAC West went from five potential champs to two as the conference races cleared up in a hurry. Well, that's except for the Conference USA that decided to have some 4-2 teams beat 5-1 teams to form a... Continue Reading →
Murphy's Field 