Author: Adam Gibby

When the College Football Playoff was released this past Sunday, it was no surprise that the reactions were loud and direct. Every bubble team from Alabama to BYU felt that they had a very real case to be in the Playoff, and based on their reasonings, they did.  Unfortunately, there was only one real spot up for grabs, and SMU, Alabama, Miami, Ole Miss, BYU, and South Carolina were all fighting for that spot each with their own unique resume and case to be included. For BYU, they had a case when they pointed to being a two-loss team with…

As college football nears the halfway point of the season, there have been plenty of surprises, with teams playing better than expected (Indiana, Iowa State, and BYU, to name a few) and teams that have not met the preseason hype (I’m looking at you, Florida State and Oklahoma State). Despite this, one thing has not changed, or at least not much: SEC teams are still ranked extremely high. SEC Carries So Much Weight Undoubtedly, the SEC is the best conference in the country. You have to be crazy to believe otherwise. Because of this, there seems to be some grace given…

The division between the P4 and G5 teams and conferences in college football has been a division that has been slowly growing over the past few years, and that split may now be so large that separating completely may be inevitable. The Pac 12 (2, 6, or whatever) has just announced that it will add Boise State, San Diego State, Fresno State, and Colorado State to the conference, bringing the conference to six teams. One may argue that the transfer from the MWC to the Pac 12 won’t do much, considering the Pac 12 will still be largely viewed as…

College Football always has some teams that outplay their preseason expectations. Unfortunately, sometimes, these teams aren’t recognized until much later in the season. Sometimes they don’t get recognized because all the attention is on the ‘good’ teams that lost. For example, if we look back at this past week, Notre Dame got all the attention for losing to NIU. Hardly any headline went to the idea or possibility that NIU might be just a much better team than anyone thought possible. NIU isn’t the only team outperforming expectations. Here are three under-the-radar teams that may need to be on one…

Robert Saleh’s seat is getting very warm. The New York Jets have not made the NFL Playoffs since 2010. For perspective, the next worst drought in the NFL is the Denver Broncos, who have only gone eight years since their last playoff appearance. Now, if this was a smaller market team that didn’t have a history or huge national following, maybe this wouldn’t be such a big story, but this is the New York Jets, one of the most followed and recognized team in the NFL. For the Jets, there are no excuses. There is always someone to blame, and…

College Football is only two weeks into the season, and there is already a ton of chaos, and plenty of games have already derailed certain teams’ seasons. Yesterday, the AP Top 25 was released for week three, and for the first time, there was a ton of movement as there were plenty of ranked matchups and huge upsets. Here are three of the biggest takeaways. Preseason Rankings Still Effecting Rankings We are three weeks into the season, and teams are still greatly boosted from a preseason ranking that likely was too high. Quite a few teams are still ranked extremely…

Week of the NFL Season is about in the books, and week one taught us a lot about what we can expect to see for the rest of the season. Of course, some things we expected would happen, and they did, while there were a few surprises nobody expected. NFL Week 1 – The Good First, NFL Football is back, which everyone can appreciate. If there is nothing else from this weekend to take away, the fact that football is back is something to be celebrated. Besides being back, here are a few of the good highlights: Thursday Night Football…

College Football is the best sport for quite a few reasons, but perhaps one of the best is that an upset can happen to anyone against any team. With only 12 regular-season games, a single loss can be the difference between a special season and a season that fans want to forget. Naturally, these upsets don’t happen that often, but they happen enough to keep things interesting. Some weeks, there are no major upsets, and then there are weeks like this past Saturday. Is Notre Dame’s Season Over? Notre Dame had a huge win last week against Texas A&M, but…

College Football season is in full swing, and week one gave us plenty of reasons to remember why college56 football is the best sport on the planet. It was as if all the off-season drama of conference realignment, the transfer portal, and NIL didn’t matter. Once the games kicked off, it was the same great game that we have all loved our entire lives. If there is one major problem, it can be difficult to track which games to watch and which games are maybe not as intriguing as the media likes to make them out to be (mostly because…

For the second week in a row, no teams from G5 college football conferences are represented in the AP Top 25. This comes just two days after UNLV was the only G5 team to take down a P4 team, beating Houston from the Big 12. While there are teams in the ‘receiving votes’ category, this is a shocking reality check for G5 fans regarding where they stand in the eyes of the media. G5 Teams Have Always Been Represented in the Polls In the past, at least one G5 team has always been in the AP Top 25. So why…