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Another weekend of college football, and more head-scratching upsets to shake up rankings. With one week left in the regular season, we have possible tiebreakers that could put a 5-2 team in a conference championship over 6-2 teams, and another where what was thought by many to possibly come down to the CFP rankings corrected... Continue Reading →
Down the stretch we go. Just two weeks remain before conference championship games, and Toledo became the first team to clinch a spot in one last week. Over the weekend, the SEC title game and ACC title games were finalized, and Coastal Carolina wrapped up a spot in the Sun Belt title fight. Teams that... Continue Reading →
While Clemson and Alabama losing on the same day for the first time since 2013 had much of the college football world shaken up, we had a mostly straightforward week up top at the Group of 5, with our ranked teams last week going 10-3. One of the losses was far from a surprise, with... Continue Reading →
The first College Football Playoff rankings came out this week, and while those have typically undervalued Group of 5 teams, we only value the Group of 5. It was a quiet week, with seven of our 15 ranked teams from a week ago on byes, but UCF and Cincinnati played a thriller to make up... Continue Reading →
We had three ranked matchups from these rankings last week, all with different conference affiliations. Independents BYU and Liberty ended in a blowout, Troy and South Alabama played a defensive slugfest on Thursday night in Sun Belt action, and Air Force and Boise State of the Mountain West dragged out a 19-14 contest in the... 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 →
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