If your team is playing in one of these bowls, congratulations! Normally I’d say “your team is at least 6-6”, but so many schools disturbingly opted out of these games, more 5-7 squads than usual made the cut. If your love football like me, then you’ll appreciate the teams that did show up instead of…
We have finally arrived! It’s year two of the revamped College Football Playoff, and the committee almost aligned with my personal picks again. We were just one team apart, so I’m pretty happy with that. The top 4 seeds got byes, while the other 8 participants played for the right to face them. In the…
We’ve finally made it! All the games (except bowls) have been played, we know the conference champions, and we’re about ready to find out who made the CFP. Before the committee releases the official results, I wanted to share who I thought should be in and the order in which they should be ranked. I…
Welcome to the conference championships! For most of these teams, this is the big goal. A select few have CFP dreams. I’ll be covering each of the 9 FBS title games (no Pac-12 once again*), so expect a long article. Therefore, I’m not going to do specific CFP and draft sections here. I’m writing a…
Welcome to rivalry week, where familiarity and contempt can breed unusual results. Poor UMass ended up being the only 0-12 team, while Ohio State and Indiana are the lone remaining unbeatens. We’ll talk through actual game flows here but more about implications. No draft nugget this week during crunch time (there will be plenty of…
Just two weeks remain in the regular season, and only two ranked-vs.-ranked matchups took place. Both were pretty much chalk. (8) Oklahoma’s defense smothered (22) Missouri, while (7) Oregon ran away from (15) USC in the second half. That doesn’t mean we had a calm week. (9) Notre Dame embarrassed Syracuse 70-7, and UAB suffered…
There are currently two tiers of teams battling for positioning at the moment. One group contains the top SEC, Big Ten, and Big XII squads who are cruising toward CFP bids but would love a conference championship and a first-round bye. The other batch of teams consists of the second level of those conferences plus…
The CFP committee released their first official rankings on Tuesday, and amazingly, I’m pretty satisfied! This is quite a rarity. Each week, I’m going to dedicate one of my takeaways below to analyzing their rankings. I’ll explain where they went wrong (or right if that miraculously happens like this week) and why, as well as what I’d…
Conference games are a tricky business. Maybe having two records, one overall and one within the conference, provides a little more pressure for these contests. Whatever the reason, you always get some unexpected results when conference foes face off. That can be even more troublesome for teams in the playoff chase. Three top-10 teams went…
We had ourselves a lighter schedule this week with several ranked teams idle. Coincidentally, the ones that did play mostly didn’t face each other. That doesn’t mean we saw little of note. Auburn surged back to victory over Arkansas after benching QB Jackson Arnold. (10) Vanderbilt beat (15) Missouri in a slugfest after Tigers QB…