The Sun Belt Conference has become a steppingstone conference of sorts, serving as a rest area on the highway for teams moving up from the FCS ranks or serving as a last resort for teams whose conferences have disbanded. The Sun Belt regularly finds itself raided as teams move around the conference pecking order, with teams like...
In a week marked by chaos all over the college football landscape, teams from the Group of Five were not immune to upsets. Three more teams fell by the wayside for now in the hunt for the guaranteed berth in one of the College Football Playoff-affiliated bowl games... and that doesn't include BYU, whose longshot bid for a spot in one...
16 teams from the Group of Five schools entered the last weekend of September with one or fewer losses. Two of the 16 were undefeated. Only Marshall remained unbeaten after the weekend was over, and eight others lived to see October with a sole defeat. As a result, the field is getting thinner in the hunt for the first-ever...
The new automatic bid for teams from the Group of Five conferences into one of the New Year's Day bowl games under the auspices of the College Football Playoff, on face value, affords greater access to the system than mid-major leagues have ever received in the past. Truly great teams like Tulane in 1998, Marshall in 1999, TCU in...
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...
We're a little late here this week, so rather than expounding at the top let's just dive right in to this week's BCS Buster Power Rankings!
1. Northern Illinois Huskies (MAC/2-0)
LAST WEEK'S RANKING: 1st
THIS WEEK'S RESULT: win at Idaho 45-35
NEXT GAME: Sept. 21 vs. FCS Eastern Illinois
This should never...
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...
