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…
The NCAA football season has finally arrived. Last year was hectic; this year is set to be complete mayhem. Realignment accelerated, culminating in the Pac-12’s demise. The transfer portal became more hectic than the caricature in those Dr. Pepper commercials. But now is when things settle down and we just play football! In case you…
As fans of the NCAA Football video game series from EA SPORTS are almost certainly aware, the newest edition of the game is launching on July 19 following an 11-year gap since the last release. Given how little is going on in real football before training camp starts in the NFL, I thought we’d take…
You’ve probably heard all about NIL (name, image, and likeness) recently. The concept has greatly benefitted college players, who can now profit off their use in commercials, endorsements, etc. One thing you might not have been told is how the NFL Draft comes into play here. In this article, we’re going to take stock of…
This is it. Everything that the 128 FBS teams have gone through has culminated in this moment. Now, only two teams remain. They happen to be the only two unbeaten teams in the country: Michigan and Washington. I imagine the CFP committee is flexing somewhere right now given that their top 2 teams both made…