Week Eight was the week when most of the pretenders to the crown fell by the wayside with Ole Miss, Syracuse & UCLA all losing their 100% records. They are pretty much eliminated from contention for the Final Four but are still in contention for nice bowl games. We are sure that their fans would…
Week Seven really shook up the top of the rankings and suddenly the CFP field has largely shrunk to the usual suspects plus a certain other team that plays in Orange. Tennessee finally got a win over Alabama in a thrilling game which was settled by a field goal as time expired. The Volunteers last beat…
Week six may have lacked last week’s drama, however, in many ways, it was even more enlightening as it showed how dependent certain teams are on their star players. Overall six of the 23 ranked teams playing lost and for many, any path to the playoffs is now gone. Not that they had much of…
Things really did get serious in week five with 10 (yes Ten) of the top 25 losing and one or two not looking too impressive even if they scraped home. It was a better week for the Big 12 though and they should have four teams ranked in week six. Surprisingly neither Oklahoma nor Texas…
Week four was not great for the Big 12, with two of its ranked teams suffering surprise losses. Oklahoma & Texas both lost to non-ranked opponents and suddenly the conference looks wide open. At the top Georgia was far from impressive against Kent State, and no 4 Michigan also made hard work of beating Maryland….
Week three of the 2022 college football season was a whole lot less eventful than last week with only one ranked team succumbing to an unranked opponent. Even here it was not a huge upset given Washington who beat no 11 Michigan State is now 3-0. They are likely to replace the Spartans in the…
Craig Taylor