The CFP committee released their first official rankings on Tuesday, and as usual, they messed things up. This seems to happen every year, so 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…
The first official College Football Playoff rankings of the season come out on Tuesday, so I thought I’d do something a little different. I’m going to discuss each team that I think belongs in the initial top 4 below. I probably won’t agree with the CFP committee (I almost never do), but that’s too bad….
For once, we had a pretty calm week! There was only one true top-25 upset that we probably should have seen coming (LSU over Ole Miss; 10 over 9 doesn’t qualify), while two of the top teams (Georgia and Michigan) were idle. I’ve decided that I’m going to try and put a draft-related discussion at…
This is the kind of week that college football fans love. We’ve got SIX top-25 matchups. You normally only see that during rivalry week, conference championship week, and bowl season. Three of those six pit undefeated teams against one another. Plenty of other matchups provided additional intrigue. Let’s keep this intro short and sweet and…
We’ve reached the halfway point of the regular season (excluding conference championship games), so I thought it would be a good idea to examine how each of the Power 5 conferences is doing. I am looking at them from several perspectives, including their elite teams, their depth, and their playoff positions. Have there been major…
Some things stay the same (UMass blew a lead against a fairly weak foe), and somethings change (UConn beat an FBS opponent????). I’m sorry; I’ll say nice things about some of these maligned things too throughout the season, but we’re looking higher up in the pecking order today. We know that the top few teams…
Four games in, we’re starting to be able to separate the contenders from the pretenders. #4 Michigan looked shaky and needed poor officiating to survive against Maryland, while #5 Clemson dodged an upset in double overtime (more on that below), #6 Oklahoma fell to Kansas State, and #7 USC BARELY dodged Oregon State (with the…
Tasked with following a wild week 2, week 3 provided relative calm. There were no upsets that were too insane, and only a couple top-25 matchups took place. The favored teams mostly won, and in the case of the top teams, won big. Admittedly, that makes it a bit harder to find interesting things to…
It’s very clear that week 1 was merely a warmup. We had a lot of excitement, yes, but nothing really WILD happened outside of one UNC-Appalachian State game with no defense. Week 2 delivered the chaos we know and love. Shocking upsets, surprisingly close games, and more overtime delivered a ton of action. We can…
The NCAA football season has finally arrived. Now, it’s about time we got to the things this blog was named after: takeaways! I’ll be posting these the day after the last game in a given week. In this article, we’ll discuss several of the key topics that transpired during this week’s games. Unless something really…