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Week four of college football kicked off with a thriller between Appalachian State and Marshall that may have very well been the Group of 5 Game of the Week, especially with Boise State-Utah State and Western Michigan-San José State turning into blowouts. That left UTSA and Memphis to fight with App State-Marshall for that title,... Continue Reading →
What a week of college football. Six Group of 5 teams beat Power 5 teams, even with UCF and Boise State both losing as favorites. Two of those wins were against top 25 teams, with Fresno State showing they belong and BYU making a bid to be the Pac-12 champion holding a 3-0 record against... Continue Reading →
Two (plus a few week 0 games) weeks into the 2021 college football season, and it's at least time for the first Group of 5 power ranking of the year. Cincinnati entered the season as a heavy favorite to take the Group of 5 spot in a New Year's Six bowl and with a slim... 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 →
Our top three Group of 5 teams from a week ago continued to dominate. Liberty won as 17-point underdogs at Virginia Tech, earning legitimacy points as VT was the first good team on Liberty's schedule. Further down our rankings, Memphis and Louisiana struggled in what were supposed to be easier games for them. And what... Continue Reading →
Cincinnati continued dominating, Coastal Carolina recorded a historic blowout and the MAC is back this week. Elsewhere, UCF beat Houston to get back to above .500 in American conference play, UAB continued to struggle as the Blazers dropped to 4-3 following a loss to Louisiana Tech and Boise State took down Air Force ahead of... Continue Reading →
The Mountain West has returned, giving us a chance to start gushing over how good Boise State looked in its season-opening win over Utah State. Cincinnati and SMU played what will likely be the biggest Group of 5 game this year, leaving us with a clear impression of how the top of the AAC looks.... 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 →
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