Oregon moved up to No. 2 behind top-ranked Texas in the AP Top 25 college football poll Sunday after their dramatic win against Ohio State. The Ducks jumped a spot after beating Ohio State 32-31 in a thriller at Autzen Stadium on Saturday night for their highest ranking since finishing the 2014 season at No. […]
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We do it every year. Alabama has only four possible losses on its whole schedule! It’ll be favored in every game the rest of the season! Missouri’s whole season comes down to only two games! Tennessee’s path to the Playoff is a cakewalk now! And every year, college football reminds us about the foolishness of
Editor’s note: The Athletic 134 is a weekly ranking of all FBS college football teams. Every college football season contains a Chaos Week that throws these rankings up in the air. This year’s was bigger than any we’ve had in a long time. Four top-10 teams lost on Saturday, three of them to unranked opponents.
And now, 20 Final Thoughts from an upset-crazed Week 6 in college football. 1. It’s always the Saturdays that look lightest on paper that deliver the zaniest results. This one saw five of the nation’s top 11 teams go down, four of them to unranked opponents. It was arguably the most hectic day the sport
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Perhaps the schedule makers thought we would need a breather after Georgia–Alabama last week? There’s only one ranked matchup across the entire slate and nothing that jumps out on paper. That said, there are some intriguing matchups that could yield potentially telling results. No judgment if you opt for the pumpkin patch this weekend, but
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Editor’s note: The Athletic 134 is a weekly ranking of all FBS college football teams. “You could not live with your own failure. Where did that bring you? Back to me.” When Nick Saban retired, many wondered whether Alabama would take a step back. It had to, right? The greatest coach in the history of
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And now, 20 thoughts from college football’s Week 5, where, if you blinked, you missed a 75-yard touchdown. 1. I keep waiting for college football to go the way of BlackBerry and Blockbuster as so many have predicted. But this weird thing keeps happening. When these teams full of amazing athletes step onto the field
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Editor’s note: The Athletic 134 is a weekly ranking of all FBS college football teams. Much of the talk going into Tennessee’s trip to Oklahoma was about Volunteers coach Josh Heupel’s return to his alma mater, Heupel was right when, through teary eyes, he told his players that Saturday’s 25-15 win against the Sooners was
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And now, 20 thoughts from Week 4, where Colorado conjured quite a 30th-anniversary tribute of Kordell Stewart’s Hail Mary to beat Michigan, while Michigan itself earned the biggest win of the weekend. 1. Saturday’s USC-Michigan thriller was a three-hour advertisement for New College Football. Two marquee brands that may have previously only met in a Rose
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Editor’s note: The Athletic 134 is a weekly ranking of all FBS college football teams. It took just two weeks for college football to descend into chaos. We’ve had two top-10 teams lose to unranked opponents. Notre Dame appeared to have a clear path to the College Football Playoff, then lost to Northern Illinois. Oregon
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