And so we come to the portion of the Power Five previews where we cover the conference that was looking in from the outside at the College Football Playoff last year. In 2015, three-quarters of the teams ended the year with winning records, but none ended them with fewer than two losses after conference champion Stanford fell at...
Since bringing in Utah and Colorado in 2011, forming a couple of six-team divisions, and holding a championship game at the home site of the team with the better record, the Pac-12 has seen power shift completely toward the teams in the North. Essentially the conference has become a two-horse race, with the winner of the...
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! We're into the penultimate week of the 2013 college football regular season, and the stakes are high as rivals square off and conferences determine their championship contenders.
Not that you necessarily want to trust our judgment. We're limping to the finish line, with the three of us posting a combined...
We're back on our regular schedule after last week's Thursday night fireworks in Waco and Palo Alto restructured the BCS standings. Hopefully things trend upward after the early picks went sour quickly, with all three of us starting 1-1 before Saturday's action even started.
Blame it on the Wednesday lines, or blame it on not being...
Two of the three Tailgaters had winning records against the spread, with Matt overtaking Zach in the season standings. But while John went 5-0 with his first five picks, including South Carolina's improbable upset of Missouri, the later games proved difficult for everyone. Not a single of our Upset of the Week picks, for instance,...
Last week turned out rough for the crew, with nobody finishing with a winning record. As it was, the chaos that swept through college football also wreaked havoc on our records picking against the spread.
After the improvement of last week, we all feel back to Earth once again. When it all balanced out, here's how each of us fared...
If last weekend kicked off upset season, this weekend's slate of games might be remembered as "The Night Dixie Drove Itself Down". The hierarchy in the SEC was skewed, with the East rapidly developing into Missouri's one-horse race and the West looking even more like Alabama's to lose. Five teams that were in our top 25 last week -- LSU,...
Upsets finally reared their ugly heads this week, as six teams from last week's Tailgater poll fell by the wayside on Saturday. Four of those teams -- #3 Stanford, #14 Oklahoma, #19 Michigan, and #21 Northwestern -- all fell to teams that were unranked at the start of the weekend. After the upsets, only two of those teams remain in the...
We were blessed with some tight games, some close finishes, and a couple of near-upsets last weekend. Of course, last-second heroics like Ohio State's miraculous back-door cover did nothing to help this particular trio of Tailgaters, but taken all together last Saturday offered tons of excitement.
This week, all three of us...
We're less than a week away from the kickoff of the 2013 college football season, and it appears from the ballots of our seven gridiron pollsters here at Sports Unbiased that everyone else is still chasing after Nick Saban's Crimson Tide. Gunning for their fourth BCS championship in five seasons, Alabama returns plenty of talent on both...
