The smallest of the Power Five conferences, and the only one that does not currently hold a championship game, managed to crown a solo champ in 2015 and earned a spot in the College Football Playoff quartet as a result. There the Sooners were steamrolled 37-17 by Clemson, and the Big 12 is just 1-3 in New Year's Six games since the...
With the start of the 2016 college football season approaching rapidly, we are compiling conference previews here at Sports Unbiased to break down each of the FBS leagues as well as evaluating the four independent schools at the top level of the sport. We have already compiled our PRS Rankings for the preseason; be sure to check them...
Championship weekend provided plenty of opportunities for the half-dozen hopefuls for the four bids into the inaugural College Football Playoff at the FBS level. Oregon atoned for its only loss of the season, trouncing Arizona in the rematch at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara 51-13 to capture its first Pac-12 championship since 2011....
The Big Ten and Big 12 have more teams in the top 10 of this week's FBS Top 128 Power Rankings. The Pac-12 has the highest-rated team, and even Marshall is ahead of the highest-rated SEC school -- and that's despite the Herd suffering their first loss of the season on Friday. It is hardly in a position of weakness, but the league...
One team has been conspicuously absent from the leaders in the FBS Top 128 Power Rankings this season. The Oregon Ducks have become synonymous with high-flying offense over the past half-dozen years, consistently knocking off opponents by 10, 20, even 30 points per game. Yet in 2014 the Ducks have been mired in the second tier of...
Nebraska entered the weekend as the team best positioned to knock off Ohio State for the Big Ten championship. By the end of Saturday afternoon, the Cornhuskers had been exposed as pretenders to the throne.
Wisconsin spotted the visitors a two-touchdown lead after Nebraska scored less than a minute into the second quarter to go...
The SEC has slipped back a bit in the FBS Top 128 Rankings as teams in the West continue to beat up on one another. Alabama's overtime survival in Death Valley led to a two-spot drop; Ole Miss' shutout of FCS Presbyterian wasn't enough to keep it from being surpassed by a couple of teams; and Auburn's defeat yielded similar results....
For two weeks in September, Texas A&M led the country in adjusted margin of victory. The Aggies fell from the top once October rolled around, losing three consecutive games against Mississippi State, Ole Miss, and Alabama. That opened the door for the Rebels to leap to the top of the FBS Top 128 last week, only to fall back in...
Earlier this season we discussed whether an undefeated BYU team might be able to break into the College Football Playoff field. The Cougars, due largely to the broken leg suffered by otherworldly quarterback Taysom Hill, have plummeted down the rankings with three straight losses following a 4-0 start. But there is another mid-major...
The past couple of weeks have helped delineate the SEC West pecking order, as the two Mississippi schools have supplanted the two Alabama schools as the class of the division. What the past fortnight has not done, however, is create much separation in the adjusted margin of victory for each of these teams. As a result, the logjam of...
