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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 →
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 →
BYU traveled to Coastal Carolina following Liberty's inability to play the Chanticleers due to COVID-19 issues and Coastal earned a signature win over the Cougars. Marshall got shut out by Rice in an embarrassing defeat in Conference-USA play, and most conference championship game spots have been decided as we enter the final week of the... Continue Reading →
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 →
In an office pool, competing against friends, or just filling out a bracket online for fun and don't know who to pick? Don't worry, no one else does either. That's what makes it fun. It's hard to say what teams to pick based on past data, good teams change all the time. But we can... Continue Reading →
We've hit the end of 2018. Bowl games are over, the early signings have been done, coaches have changed, and everyone's focused on recruiting and getting ready for 2019. So that leaves us with the final rankings for this season, just like the final AP Poll to summarize what teams were the best this year.... Continue Reading →
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