Everything is set, with all 40 bowl matchups now set in stone for the 2015 season. We now know that the American Athletic Conference was the undisputed king of the mid-major conferences, that Conference USA and the MAC overtook the Mountain West in the pecking order, and that the Sun Belt is still the caboose of the FBS leagues.
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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...
A weekend of chaos unprecedented in the annals of college football has everyone around the country rethinking common perceptions about the 2014 season. As a result, the picture for the the four-team field has become a bit fuzzier as we ponder what might happen in the second half of the inaugural College Football Playoff...
With a full round-robin schedule and lacking a conference championship game, the margin of error for the 10 teams in the Big 12 is slim this season. Three of the league's teams -- Oklahoma, Baylor, and TCU -- remain undefeated at this point in the season. And while all three are capable of both lighting up the scoreboard, the trio...
After rolling over former Southwest Conference rival SMU in Dallas 58-6 on Saturday, Texas A&M's ascent to the pinnacle of the FBS Top 128 Power Rankings was a foregone conclusion. It capped a slate of contests that saw all seven SEC West teams remain in the top 25 after a second straight weekend of games. We often hear about...
Before we start looking at how this week's rankings have shaken out, it must be noted that there have been some slight changes to the formula used to sort out the 128 FBS teams each week. Instead of using each team's Sagarin rating from week to week, we will now be adjusting them to fit the most recent computer data available. This...
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...
