The CFP committee released their first official rankings on Tuesday, and as usual, I have a few complaints. 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) and why, as well as what I’d do differently. I will also…
The wait is almost over: the CFP releases their initial playoff rankings this Tuesday. This is a week later last year’s first rankings, but the committee has more to evaluate with 12 teams now making the field. For this week, I’m going to be focusing on the games that will impact the playoff picture. That…
What a week! Four teams in the top 10 were idle, and they probably enjoyed being away from this insanity. Two top teams, (4) Ohio State and (5) Texas, survived scares from Nebraska and (25) Vanderbilt, respectively. #1-ranked Oregon dominated (20) Illinois, showing that they’re still the team to beat. Two of our staggering 8…
As we get later into the season, you may notice that we’re talking a lot about the SEC and Big Ten. That’s going to remain a trend well into the future, as realignment has loaded those two conferences. Therefore, their interconference games will keep providing us juicy matchups as they did this week. After all,…
Unusually, this week of the college football season was marked by potential upsets that did NOT happen. Most of the top-ranked teams held on despite scares. The lone exception was (2) Ohio State, but they played another elite team in (3) Oregon. Outside of the top 3 schools, I find it hard to identify any…
Even with 14 teams on byes this week, we saw tons of great football and plenty of surprises. The SEC suffered some massive carnage, and these results could later impact how many playoff spots this conference earns. Everything from last week also flipped: (5) Georgia and (12) Mississippi dominated, (25) UNLV dropped a heartbreaker, and…
Sometimes, you don’t have the chaos you want. If you were rooting for major upsets, you really only got one. (10) Utah losing without QB Cam Rising does not qualify, and I wouldn’t count (4) Alabama beating (2) Georgia as an “upset” either. That said, we saw plenty of other drama! A QB quit on…
College football is starting to hit its stride, and our opinions about the teams are beginning to solidify. Despite that, you never really know what will happen. The top Group of 5 (6?) teams in the AP and Coaches polls, (23) Northern Illinois and Memphis, respectively, both lost in upsets. (11) USC fell to (18)…
We couldn’t even make it 3 weeks into the season without realignment making an impact. Trust me: we’ll get to that. On the field though, the games still taught us a lot! Despite just one game (Missouri beating Boston College) featuring two ranked teams and almost no significant upsets, we learned quite a bit about…
Week 2 always brings us some crazy outcomes. A top-10 team went down at home, and so did Notre Dame! Two FCS teams earned wins against “mismatch” opponents. Given that so many unheralded teams made noise, I thought we’d make this week’s theme about the underdogs. Aside from my first section, which addresses a game…