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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 →
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 →
26 Bowl games, the fewest since 2001, were played to cap the 2020 college football season that was in jeopardy of being canceled altogether when four conferences announced a postponement of fall sports in August. Only three bowl games had a Group of 5 team matched up with a Power 5 team, and all three... Continue Reading →
Maybe the weirdest championship week ever, with 19 games played even as one championship game was called off due to COVID-19 concerns, has come to an end with a final Playoff Ranking that left many college football fans feeling like their team got robbed. To view last week's rankings, with mostly incorrect conference championship game... Continue Reading →
We've made it through the strange, COVID-19-riddled season and have arrived at a conference championship week that will feature many regular season games being made up and nearly had a bowl game in the middle of it. The Frisco Bowl ended up being canceled due to coronavirus issues within the SMU program, leaving us a... Continue Reading →
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