0 comments by Yesh Ginsburg on 12/1/2015
The new rankings from the College Football Playoff selection committee are out and, for what feels like the first time, there were no real surprises at the top. There was a bit of a debate before the rankings came out whether Stanford would be ahead of Ohio State or not and some were of the […]
0 comments by Yesh Ginsburg on 11/30/2015
This was a weird week for the Bubble Watch. All of the contenders still alive last week had such a huge lead on the field that we can’t really eliminate most of them. No, Florida and Notre Dame are not still in contention — it certainly seems that way, at any rate. However, if we […]
0 comments by Yesh Ginsburg on 11/29/2015
Doing bowl projections, even this late in the season, can lead to a few problems. First of all, there is always an unfortunate need to prognosticate games. I’m not supposed to be here to guess who will win every game this coming week. I’m here to tell you what the most likely bowl destinations are […]
0 comments by Yesh Ginsburg on 11/25/2015
If you have seen our Bubble Watch here at The Student Section, you will remember that we still count 13 teams with a chance at making the College Football Playoff. Some of these teams have worse chances than the others, while some have very clear paths to the Playoff. With only two weeks left in […]
0 comments by Yesh Ginsburg on 11/24/2015
As always, there was a ton of immediate outrage with the newest committee rankings on social media, but they seem to have shown more consistency overall than they usually do. Let’s start with the talking points at the top and work our way down. First of all, Oklahoma at No. 3 is the first major […]
0 comments by Yesh Ginsburg on 11/23/2015
At our count last week, there will still 16 teams left alive in the College Football Playoff hunt. Now, with just two weeks left to go, we are down to 13. TCU was eliminated when they picked up their second loss, Wisconsin’s chances ended when Iowa clinched the Big Ten West, and Houston’s pipe dream […]
0 comments by Yesh Ginsburg on 11/19/2015
Rooting interests go beyond the rivalries which will be staged the next two weeks. Let’s see how they stack up. If you have seen our Bubble Watch here at The Student Section, you will remember that we still count 15 teams with a chance at making the College Football Playoff. Some of those teams will […]
0 comments by Yesh Ginsburg on 11/18/2015
We noted last week that the committee has not been wholly consistent in how far down teams move after suffering a loss, though we can begin to note a pattern this week. Six ranked teams lost last week. Once again, some of them fell further than others. In general, it feels like the amount a […]
0 comments by Yesh Ginsburg on 11/16/2015
When we did our Bubble Watch last week, we still had 21 teams left alive in the College Football Playoff race. After a chaotic week last week, though, we are now down to 16. Utah, UCLA, Mississippi State, and LSU were all eliminated with losses. LSU’s resume actually isn’t bad; it compares relatively well with […]
0 comments by Yesh Ginsburg on 11/15/2015
One week ago, the race for the Group of Five bid in a New Year’s Six bowl was all wrapped up. The American controlled the bid and was guaranteed a spot in either the Peach or Fiesta Bowl, depending on who emerged as the champion. That was last week. This week, everything is different. One […]
0 comments by Yesh Ginsburg on 11/12/2015
If you have seen our Bubble Watch here at The Student Section, you will remember that we still count 21 teams with a chance at making the College Football Playoff. Some of those teams will have a better chance than others. Some of those teams don’t really have much of a chance at all, and […]
0 comments by Yesh Ginsburg on 11/10/2015
Here’s an initial reaction to Tuesday night’s latest College Football Playoff rankings, which will occur every week in this space through the end of the regular season: The first thing that really stands out in the selection committee’s rankings this week is Notre Dame. This shouldn’t have been much of a surprise. If you saw […]
0 comments by Yesh Ginsburg on 11/9/2015
Welcome to our very first College Football Playoff Bubble Watch here at Bloguin. What I do will be relatively simple. I will provide you with the resumes of every single team still in contention for the CFP so that you can compare. After presenting the resume, I will give a short analysis explaining what it […]
0 comments by Yesh Ginsburg
With Navy thumping Memphis on Saturday, there are some serious doubts as to which team will come out on top in the American Athletic Conference. League championships obviously matter to the teams who win them, and they bring important bragging rights, but why should The American champion be relevant on a national level? Let’s quickly […]
