Bowl games are inherently weird if you stop and think about them for too long. They are glorified exhibitions between teams that aren’t always on the same competitive level, especially in these G5 games. Even the G5 vs P5 games this year weren’t with teams that are normally in contention for the bowls (looks at [...]
"The Committee has great respect for Cincinnati." — RedditCFB (@RedditCFB) December 20, 2020 I think we can all agree that the “respect” shown towards Cincinnati is a transparent attempt to try and appease the college football fans (and certain media members) from thinking that Cincinnati had a chance to crack that top 4. He can [...]
Earlier this week, Disney owned the social media world with their Investor Day, which had some additions to ESPN+ (which is owned by Disney through ABC). I find it ironic then, that the most notable moment on the ESPN+ platform after this investors call was the iconic finish between Ball State and Western Michigan. ESPN+ [...]
Well, that was fun, wasn’t it? Last week in this space I thought Coastal would blow the doors off of Liberty if they met on the field. Turns out, through a COVID outbreak at Liberty, BYU was easily slid in as an opponent. It was a crazy 48 hours to get to a historic matchup, [...]
Yes, I went three for three on song lyric references in the title. No, I'm not going to apologize for it. Not a lot of changes this week as a bunch of the games I would have been looking forward to were canceled or postponed throughout the week leading to no major changes up top. [...]
Welcome back to the 18S G5 Top 10. Last week I realized in the excitement of releasing the first edition I forgot to mention what the criteria is for the list. After a week of games, I take a look into a combination of a few things; on the field play, opponent quality, ability to [...]
With this topsy turvy season finally underway and the emergence of non-powers in the AP Top 25, we decided at 18S to have a top 10 G5 Poll in parallel with the usual top 20 on a weekly basis. This season has been a fun one for the non-power schools, with many of the teams [...]
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