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 College Football Playoff selection committee will release its inaugural Top 25 standings on Tuesday, and that will certainly give us a better understanding of how they are perceiving the strength of various Group of Five contenders in the field. Everything up to this point in the post-BCS era has been mere speculation; now we...
So I made an egregious oversight last week, as this week's top team failed to even garner an honorable mention in the Week 2 Mid-Major Power Rankings. For some reason I overlooked East Carolina -- much like Virginia Tech would over the weekend, allowing Shane Carden to throw for over 400 yards as the Pirates held on for a 28-21...
The long opening weekend’s slate of games separated a few of the overhyped pretenders from the less-heralded contenders in the quest for the first guaranteed mid-major berth in one of the elite bowl games. It also required a lot more serious thought regarding Perennial favorites like UCF, Boise State, and Fresno State were felled...
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...
First, excuse the tardiness. It took a week to reconcile myself to the reality that nobody would bust the BCS in its final season. While it is not the storybook ending that would cap the history of this era succinctly, it might just be the ending we needed to make us realize what this era really taught.
For the sixteen years of BCS...
The 2013 college football season got off to a fast start with several brilliant performances around the nation. Doing a Heisman Watch after one week is rather pointless because many of the guys on this list won’t be there at season’s end, and I will inevitably leave someone off who will be a serious contender for the award by...
The 2013 college football season is just a few days away from kickoff with several teams getting their season’s started on Thursday night. It’s been a long, brutal offseason that didn't seem like it would ever end, but the light at the end of the tunnel is now very visible as the season quickly approaches.
The 78th Heisman...
Perhaps the strangest thing about this final year of the BCS era is the fact that we are down to just four non-AQ leagues with the demise of the WAC as a football conference. With all the realignment over the offseason, and with the newly-renamed American Athletic Conference still clinging for one last time to the Big East's automatic...
