In the lead-up to the upcoming college football season, Sports Unbiassed is taking a look at the top 20 teams with a chance to win the Access Bowl bid in 2015. You can find the full list of the Top 20, links to other team previews, and read more about the methodology behind the rankings here.
Boise State...
In the lead-up to the upcoming college football season, Sports Unbiassed is taking a look at the top 20 teams with a chance to win the Access Bowl bid in 2015. You can find the full list of the Top 20, links to other team previews, and read more about the methodology behind the rankings here.
Northern Illinois...
The moment has actually arrived, where a mid-major school is finally guaranteed some semblance of access into the power circle of the college football postseason. On one hand it is a token handout, a way of lumping the Group of Five conferences together as a separate subdivision within the FBS and tossing them a pittance to quiet any...
How crazy have the first two weeks of the college football season been for the Group of Five schools? Just a fortnight into the new year, only nine schools remain undefeated from among the mid-major conferences. (Well, 10 when you count a Cincinnati team that has yet to play a game.)
The beauty of the new system this year is that...
Less than a month from now, we will begin to have hard data on how the impending College Football Playoff era will impact mid-major teams at the FBS level. How will teams from outside the power-broker conferences be perceived by a revamped version of a system that for so long sought to reduce their access to the lucrative paydays of...
At face value, the upcoming College Football Playoff seems far more equitable for the gridiron game than the Bowl Championship Series ever managed to be during its 14-year reign. Sure, there were a couple of ready-made contests that provided what felt at face value like a definitive answer of supremacy for a given season. But over...
At first it seemed as though there wasn't going to be a BCS Buster in this final season before the College Football Playoff commences in the 2014-15 season. Fresno State fell to San Jose State the day after Thanksgiving, leaving NIU in position to repeat after last season's Orange Bowl berth. Then the Huskies bombed out against Bowling...
With the bowl season commencing this weekend, the last hurrah for the BCS era winds its way toward its conclusion. After Florida State and Auburn play the last title game in Pasadena on January 6, the clock will officially start on the next phase of college football history. The playoff era is gestating, but beyond the four-team playoff...
A week ago, we were wondering whether Northern Illinois' leap ahead of Fresno State in the BCS standings was justified. On Black Friday, San Jose State rendered that discussion moot as they went punch for punch with the Bulldogs and ended up ruining their new league's chances of landing one final BCS berth. Both defenses looked lethargic...
Last week we talked about how Northern Illinois is closing the gap on Fresno State in the BCS standings. This week, that gap was not merely surmounted but leapfrogged.
The Huskies have reversed fortunes, and now it is the Bulldogs that are left to sweat out the results of the last two weeks of the season. Both squads will play in...
