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Power Rankings 9/8/26

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Welcome Back! As you might expect, we had quite a bit of movement after the 1st full week of games. We even had some movement within the Top 10, as Texas moves up to #3 and LSU moves in at #10, while Michigan drops from #9 to #11. Other than movement within itself, the Top 25 retains the same teams. We also have a new team at the bottom, as Charlotte drops to #138 from 137, thanks to UMass moving up to #135 from last place. Here are the teams that moved 8 spots or more (biggest movers highlighted): Ga Tech -15 to #54 UCLA +11 to #55 New Mexico +11 to #59 Texas State -9 to #72 Toledo -19 to #73 Colorado +18 to #76 Mich St -14 to #79 Miami, Oh -9 to #83 WKU -12 to #89 Okla St -19 to #95 Rutgers -11 to #100 Tulsa +15 to #102 Colo St +10 to #108 C Mich -8 to #109 Nevada +16 to #110 CCU -8 to #14 FAU -8 to #116 Utah St -34 to #124 Bowling Green -14 to #134 As a reminder, I use a points based system. Teams start out with a certain number of points based on 12 different factors, and those poi...
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TWIF Notes 9/7/26

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Welcome Back! Happy Labor Day! What a fun Week 1! As I stated earlier, my goal is to watch every team for at least one offensive and one defensive drive this season- no way I could watch every team for a whole game. So far, I have seen 66 of the 138 FBS teams play (47.8%), with 39 of the 68 P4 teams (57.4%) and 27 of the 70 G6 teams (38.6%). Add tonight's game and I'll be at 68 of 138 (49.3%) and 41 of 68 P4 (60.3%). That's not bad for the 1st 2 weekends. I won't watch much this coming weekend, as I will be attending the Navy at FAU game on Saturday for FAU Band Day.  Here are my thoughts from Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. And don't forget: there's a game tonight! 1. UMass ended a 16-game losing streak, and they did it by dominating what was thought to be a pretty decent Rutgers team. So now we wonder: are the Minutemen that good, or are the Scarlet Knights that bad? My guess is it's a little of both. UMass plays 2 FCS teams and then at Sac State, ...
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Paul's Picks 2026 Week 1

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Welcome Back! This is always one of my favorite weeks of the year- games on 5 straight days! Last week, I was very mediocre with a 5-3 record, a winning percentage of 62.5%. The games I missed were competitive, but losses nonetheless.  Oh well, there are still many, many games to go. And this week, there are a LOT of FBS vs FCS games, which history shows us is won by FBS teams greater than 90% of the time. So I just have to do well on the other games. There are 91(!) games in total this week, which I hope is the most for any week this year, because it took me a long time to prepare for this. So... on with the picks! Thursday, September 3 UMass @ Rutgers - The Scarlet Knights lead the series 3-2, winning the last 3 (1976, 1978, and 2019). The 2 wins by UMass were in 1967 and 1973, and they are 1-2 in East Rutherford/Piscataway. Rutgers was not very good last year at 5-7, but the Minutemen were 0-12. This should be an easy win for the Scarlet Knights. Bethune Cookman @ UCF - The Knig...
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