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Yahoo Top 10: There's no question who the best team in college football is after Week 9

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Yahoo Top 10: There's no question who the best team in college football is after Week 9

Week 9 brought us a pretty boring college football schedule during the day. And an unforgettable nightcap! The playoff race got a lot more exciting with some wild results on Saturday evening. The Aggies of Texas A&M made our top 10 after storming back to beat LSU. Are the Tigers out? Perhaps. The SMU Mustangs […]

Incredible statistics define SMU's improbable victory over Duke

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Incredible statistics define SMU's improbable victory over Duke

DURHAM, N.C. – In SMU's 28-27 overtime win over Duke on Saturday night, the offense's six turnovers were the stat most people remembered. SMU became the first team since Marshall in 2011 to post a minus-6 turnover margin and still win. The six turnovers, five of which came from quarterback Kevin Jennings, could have been […]

Mustangs escape with unlikely OT win, setting up crucial ACC matchup

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Mustangs escape with unlikely OT win, setting up crucial ACC matchup

DURHAM, N.C. – When you're losing the turnover battle 6-0, it's hard to win football games. Many may have even thought it was impossible before Saturday evening. But SMU accomplished the improbable feat Saturday night when the No. 22 Mustangs (7-1, 4-0) defeated Duke (6-2, 2-2) 28-27 in overtime. Despite SMU's sloppiest performance all season […]

Ranking the 134 college football teams after Week 8: BYU can no longer be ignored

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Ranking the 134 college football teams after Week 8: BYU can no longer be ignored

Editor's Note: The Athletic 134 is a weekly ranking of all FBS college football teams. It's time to pay attention to BYU. The Cougars are undefeated and handed Kansas State and SMU their only losses of the season. Still, BYU remains outside the top 10 in both the AP and Coaches polls. But not here. […]

AP Top 25: Oregon overtakes Georgia for No. 1 while Alabama falls and Vanderbilt replaces Michigan

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AP Top 25: Oregon overtakes Georgia for No. 1 while Alabama falls and Vanderbilt replaces Michigan

Oregon moved to No. 1 in the AP Top 25 college football poll on Sunday for the first time since 2012 after Texas became the third-best team in the country to lose to Georgia this season. No. 15 Alabama fell to its lowest ranking in 14 years after losing to Tennessee. The Ducks, who eliminated […]

Ranking the 134 college football teams after Week 7: Why Oregon is on top at midseason

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Ranking the 134 college football teams after Week 7: Why Oregon is on top at midseason

Editor's Note: The Athletic 134 is a weekly ranking of all FBS college football teams. If there's one lesson to be learned from the first half of this college football season, it's that the gap between the top teams and the mid-tier teams looks narrower than it has in a long time. It's a new […]

AP Top 25: Texas stays at No. 1 ahead of visit to Georgia; Oregon moves up to No. 2

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AP Top 25: Texas stays at No. 1 ahead of visit to Georgia; Oregon moves up to No. 2

Oregon moved up to No. 2 behind top-ranked Texas in the AP Top 25 college football poll on Sunday after its dramatic win over Ohio State. The Ducks took a leap forward after defeating Ohio State 32-31 in a thriller at Autzen Stadium on Saturday night to reach their highest ranking since finishing the 2014 […]

What we learned about the College Football Playoff race after the Oregon-Ohio State classic

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What we learned about the College Football Playoff race after the Oregon-Ohio State classic

Two losses no longer necessarily mean a team is eliminated from College Football Playoff contention. There's a very good chance that three-loss teams will receive an outright bid or two since the field now consists of 12 teams. And who knows, with five spots reserved for the top-ranked conference champions? Maybe a team with four […]

College Football Playoff Bubble Watch: What upsets like Vanderbilt vs. Alabama remind us

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College Football Playoff Bubble Watch: What upsets like Vanderbilt vs. Alabama remind us

We do it every year. Alabama only has four possible losses on the entire schedule! It will be the favorite in every game for the rest of the season! Missouri's entire season consists of just two games! Tennessee's path to the playoffs is now a breeze! And every year, college football reminds us how foolish […]

AP Top 25: Texas back to No. 1, while Alabama falls to No. 7 after a Saturday full of surprises

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AP Top 25: Texas back to No. 1, while Alabama falls to No. 7 after a Saturday full of surprises

Texas is back at No. 1 in the Associated Press college football top 25 and Ohio State is back at No. 2 after a weekend of upsets caused major upsets that dropped previously-highest-ranked Alabama to seventh. The Crimson Tide was one of five teams ranked in the top 11 on Saturday that lost. Alabama's loss […]