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 this year), 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. Two coaches are already out, with UNC firing Mack Brown and UCF’s Gus Malzahn leaving to take the FSU OC job. Poor Kent State became the only FBS team to finish 0-2. At the high end, (3) Texas, (9) SMU and (16) Arizona…
Just two weeks remain in the regular season, and some teams are living dangerously. (4) Penn State, (12) Boise State, and (22) Iowa State all had close calls but survived to tell the tale. Others, who we’ll get to below, weren’t nearly as lucky. There’s a bit more room for error under a 12-team playoff…
The CFP committee ruffled a few more feathers this week, but a lot of this stuff will figure itself out as the top teams compete against each other. As we’re increasingly likely to see, the bulk of the action took place in the SEC. With 9 SEC teams ranked in the top 25, that’s practically…
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…