College Football

Ole Miss comes in undefeated to a shaky looking, 2 win alabama. And it must be asked, can the lower ranked team win? To be fair to alabama, it is a home game, but to drop my snarky act for a moment I'm gonna genuinely ask: would the normally boisterous home crowd remain a factor in a early 2 possession deficit? I know I'm tempting fate a bit here, but it's with another team so I think I should be fine.

Duke’s opening-week rout of then-No. 9 Clemson served notice that the Atlantic Coast Conference wouldn’t necessarily fall in line behind the perennial powerhouse Tigers.

But this week? Orange team good! (please!)

Place	Team	Points	#1 Votes	Movement
1	Texas	139	1	+2
2	Michigan	135	1	-
3	Georgia	128	3	-2
4	Florida State	128	0	-
5	Ohio State	123	0	-
6	Washington	116	0	+1
7	USC	116	1	+1
8	Penn State	98	0	-2
9	Notre Dame	96	0	-
10	Oklahoma	87	0	+5
11	Oregon	77	0	+2
12	Ole Miss	74	0	+2
13	North Carolina	68	0	+5
14	Duke	65	0	+8
15	Utah	64	0	-3
16	LSU	50	0	+1
17	Alabama	46	0	-7
18	Colorado	40	0	+3
19	Oregon State	25	0	-
20	Miami (FL)	33	0	-
21	Iowa	31	0	+4
22	Washington State	25	0	+1
23	Tennessee	22	0	-12
24	BYU	20	0	NR
24	Missouri	20	0	NR

Others receiving votes: Rutgers (18), Louisville (17), Syracuse (14), Texas A&M (13), UCLA (11), Kentucky (8), Wisconsin (8), Kansas (5), Florida (4), Maryland (4), Wake Forest (4), Tulane (3), Auburn (1), Liberty (1)

Link to check out the spreadsheet of responses here

What if the Pac-12 and Mountain West changed the way college conferences operate by borrowing an idea from European soccer leagues?

Games this week with over 1M viewers:

• Rocky Mountain Showdown: 9.30M
• South Carolina @ Georgia: 5.42M
• Tennessee @ Florida: 5.31M
• Bama @ USF: 4.84M
• FSU @ BC: 3.48M
• Penn State @ Illinois: 3.22M
• WKU @ tOSU: 2.82M
• LSU @ Mississippi State: 2.80M
• Backyard Brawl: 2.41M
• Minnesota @ UNC: 1.58M
• Bowling Green @ Michigan: 1.32M
• Cuse @ Purdue: 1.25M
• TCU @ Houston: 1.20M
• BYU @ Arkansas: 1.08M
• Navy @ Memphis: 1.05M

“HE DOESN’T EVEN GO HERE!”

Due to "flagrant unsportsmanlike actions in the aftermath of the Florida at Tennessee football game":

Offensive lineman Damieon George, Jr., offensive lineman Micah Mazzccua and tight end Dante Zanders of Florida will be suspended for the first half of the Gators' game with Charlotte on Saturday in Gainesville. Defensive lineman Omarr Norman-Lott of Tennessee will be suspended for the first half of the Volunteers' game with UTSA on Saturday in Knoxville.

Here are this week's upcoming games. I will update links here as game threads open. I will only be posting FBS v. FBS game threads involving at least one P5 team or any games involving a /c/CFB Top 25 team. If your team is in a G5 v. G5 matchup or is playing an FCS opponent this week and is not ranked in our top 25, please feel free to post your own game thread.

Rankings per our community poll. All times Eastern:

Thursday, September 21

Friday, September 22

Saturday, September 23

To make it easier to keep up with each week's games, I want to try and post a weekly recap thread on Sundays. My main goal for this was to help those who may not have watched every game (looking at myself here) to make sure they fill out the weekly /c/CFB poll with accurate game results. I will highlight ranked teams who lost their games to make it easier to see at a glance before filling out the poll. FCS opponents will be italicized.

This week we had three ranked teams drop their games: ^11^Tennessee, ^16^Kansas State, and ^24^Arkansas. All of these teams were favored but couldn't manage to win in the end. We had several ranked teams surprisingly struggle at some point during their games this week, including all of the Top 4 teams, ^10^Alabama, and ^21^Colorado.

Please let me know what other info you might want to see or if you think that this weekly thread will not be helpful.

	Thursday	September 14
^20^ Miami	defeated	Bethune-Cookman	48-7
Memphis	defeated	Navy	28-24

	Friday	September 15
Army	defeated	UT San Antonio	37-29
Maryland	defeated	Virginia	42-14
Air Force	defeated	Utah State	39-21

	Saturday	September 16
Wisconsin	defeated	Georgia Southern	35-14
^4^ Florida State	defeated	Boston College	31-29
Wake Forest	defeated	Old Dominion	27-24
Liberty	defeated	Buffalo	55-27
Missouri	defeated	^16^ Kansas State	30-27
Ohio	defeated	Iowa State	10-7
Baylor	defeated	Long Island University	30-7
Kent State	defeated	Central Connecticut	38-10
Boise State	defeated	North Dakota	42-18
^17^ LSU	defeated	Mississippi State	41-14
Louisville	defeated	Indiana	21-14
^6^ Penn State	defeated	Illinois	30-13
Temple	defeated	Norfolk State	41-9
^12^ Utah	defeated	Weber State	31-7
Eastern Michigan	defeated	UMass	19-17
Ball State	defeated	Indiana State	45-7
NC State	defeated	VMI	45-7
^9^ Notre Dame	defeated	Central Michigan	41-17
^10^ Alabama	defeated	South Florida	17-3
^19^ Oregon State	defeated	San Diego State	26-9
Appalachian State	defeated	East Carolina	43-28
Rutgers	defeated	Virginia Tech	35-16
^25^ Iowa	defeated	Western Michigan	41-10
^15^ Oklahoma	defeated	Tulsa	66-17
^22^ Duke	defeated	Northwestern	38-14
Florida International	defeated	Connecticut	24-17
^1^ Georgia	defeated	South Carolina	24-14
^18^ North Carolina	defeated	Minnesota	31-13
Tulane	defeated	Southern Mississippi	21-3
California	defeated	Idaho	31-17
Texas A&M	defeated	Louisiana Monroe	47-3
^5^ Ohio State	defeated	Western Kentucky	63-10
^23^ Washington State	defeated	Northern Colorado	64-21
UCLA	defeated	North Carolina Central	59-7
^7^ Washington	defeated	Michigan State	41-7
Georgia State	defeated	Charlotte	41-25
UCF	defeated	Villanova	48-14
Auburn	defeated	Samford	45-13
Florida	defeated	^11^ Tennessee	29-16
UNLV	defeated	Vanderbilt	40-37
Miami (OH)	defeated	Cincinnati	31-24
Nebraska	defeated	Northern Illinois	35-11
Toledo	defeated	San José State	21-17
Middle Tennessee	defeated	Murray State	35-14
Texas Tech	defeated	Tarleton State	41-3
James Madison	defeated	Troy	16-14
South Alabama	defeated	Oklahoma State	33-7
Louisiana	defeated	UAB	41-21
SMU	defeated	Prairie View	69-0
Rice	defeated	Texas Southern	59-7
Arkansas State	defeated	Stony Brook	31-7
Coastal Carolina	defeated	Duquesne	66-7
North Texas	defeated	Louisiana Tech	40-37
West Virginia	defeated	Pittsburgh	17-6
^14^ Ole Miss	defeated	Georgia Tech	48-23
Syracuse	defeated	Purdue	35-20
BYU	defeated	^24^ Arkansas	38-31
^2^ Michigan	defeated	Bowling Green	31-6
Kentucky	defeated	Akron	35-3
^13^ Oregon	defeated	Hawai'i	55-10
Sacramento State	defeated	Stanford	30-23
^3^ Texas	defeated	Wyoming	31-10
TCU	defeated	Houston	36-13
Clemson	defeated	Florida Atlantic	48-14
New Mexico State	defeated	New Mexico	27-17
Texas State	defeated	Jackson State	77-34
^21^ Colorado	defeated	Colorado State	43-35
Fresno State	defeated	Arizona State	29-0
Kansas	defeated	Nevada	31-24
Arizona	defeated	UTEP	31-10