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Another week, several more upsets, Purdue being ranked by the AP Poll for the first time since 2007, UTSA receiving its first-ever ranking, and it is time to once again update the Group of 5 Power Rankings. Cincinnati has received its highest-ever ranking in the AP Poll at No. 2, is No. 3 in the... Continue Reading →
Dominant wins from Coastal Carolina Thursday and Cincinnati preceded a thrilling Saturday that saw a few updates to alter our rankings from what we had last week. BYU's chances of making a New Year's Six bowl game took a big hit with a loss to Boise State, which was in desperate need of momentum after... Continue Reading →
Just about every team is now into conference play, providing plenty of opportunities to see some of the best Group of 5 teams start playing each other and get more clarity in these rankings. In the meantime, Cincinnati not only secured its lead on the Group of 5 but paved its own path to a... Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Not a lot of change at the top of this week's rankings for me, as Cincinnati escaped disaster against USF, Memphis and Appalachian State recovered after slow starts, two other top-10 Group of 5 teams had a bye week, and everything went pretty much as expected. To view last week's very similar rankings, click here. The... Continue Reading →
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