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Welcome Back! What a fantastic 4th weekend of college football! We had unexpected close games, unexpected blowouts, several OT game, and some surprising results. Most of the FBS vs FCS games were the routs everyone expects in these matchups, and you can't really take much forward from these results. However, FIU lost to Monmouth, dropping the Panthers to 1-3, which is very disappointing since FIU was expected to make a jump in HC Mike MacIntyre's 3rd year. Here are my thoughts on the FBS vs FBS games. South Alabama opened the weekend by throttling Appalachian State 48-14. This result throws into question everything we thought we knew about these 2 teams, as the Jaguars just may be better than expected while the Mountaineers just may not be a good team this year. Both have tough games this week as App State hosts Liberty and SA goes on the road to Death Valley to take on LSU. Stanford kicked a late FG to get by Syracuse 26-24 and win their 1st ACC game. The Cardinal now sit

Welcome Back! I had a fantastic week, going 54-9, a winning percentage of 85.7%. There are 64 games in total this week, so I'm sure my percentage will be coming down again, especially since every miss will count more. Overall, I am 202-39, a percentage of 83.8%, and an increase of 0.7% from last week. There is absolutely no way I can maintain that, but I am still keeping my "pie-in-the-sky" goal at 80%, and my "realistic" goal at 75%. So... on with the picks! Thursday, September 19 South Alabama @ Appalachian State - The Mountaineers lead this series 4-1, winning the last 4, which means they lost the very 1st meeting to the Jaguars. ASU is 2-1 in games played in Boone. This is the conference opener for both teams. App State wins. Friday, September 20 Stanford @ Syracuse - This will be the 1st meeting between these 2 teams, who are now both members of the ACC. The Orange are off to a surprising 2-0 start, while the Cardinal is 1-1, losing to TCU by 7 and running

Welcome Back! We had a bunch of OOC games this past weekend, so lots to delve into those. Once conference games begin in earnest, I will stop updating the Inter-conference results each week, and pull them back out at the end of the year. Interconference results We had 63 games this past weekend, and almost all of them were of the non-conference variety. Here is where each conference stands in various categories after the 3rd week. Overall : 1) Big Ten 37-7/.841 (9-3 last week) 2) Pac 2 5-1/.833 (1-1) 3) SEC 32-8/.800 (8-2) 4) ACC 32-9/.780 (8-4) 5) Big 12 34-11/.756 (10-3) 6) SBC 22-16/.579 (5-5) 7) AAC 18-18/.500 (5-8) 8) MAC 16-16/.500 (6-4) 9) MWC 14-20/.478 (3-8) 10) CUSA 8-16/.333 (1-6) 11) Ind 3-6/.333 (1-2) 12) FCS 4-97/.044 (0-11) The Big Ten takes over the top spot as the SEC moves into 3rd, and the MAC moves past the Mountain West. The Big 12 had the best week at 10-3, and CUSA (1-6) had the worst week. vs FBS 1) Big Ten 25-7/.781 (6-3 last week) 2) Pac 2 3-1/.750 (1-1) 3) SE

Welcome Back! I had quite a bit of movement in the PR this week, as we are starting to see some wins and losses pile up. With only 3 games to go on, we are still mostly seeing the results of my preseason rankings just being tweaked a little. The closer teams are to each other in points, the more likely they are to move up or down. Most teams are only moving 1 or 2 spaces, if at all. The big change will happen when I drop my preseason points at the end of this month and thus the rankings will be based solely on the results of this season. In the top 10, Oregon and Alabama flip at 3 and 4, and Penn State drops from 5 to 7, with Texas and Notre Dame moving back up. In the 11-25 range, LSU and FSU swap places, as do Oklahoma State and SMU, and Texas A&M and Louisville, and Liberty drops 2 spots to #22, getting jumped in the rankings by Iowa and Miami.  Some of the bigger movers are Toledo +3 to #42 Cincinnati +3 to #50 Pittsburgh +5 to #61 Baylor +4 to #74 Texas State -4 to #75 Jackson