Only two ranked teams lost to unranked teams Saturday — but one of them was #1. The first regional polls were released this week, and I’ll let you know who’d be in the playoffs if they started today, along with lots of other news, after the jump.
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Three top-ten teams tumble (although one of them was to North Carolina, so it doesn’t quite count), three SEC teams pay out appearance bonuses to FCS teams next week, two teams remain ranked despite falling to 4-4, two teams which actually deserve it don’t get ranked, one FCS game draws over 60,000 in paid attendance, and one conference champion is crowned. All that, and partially-surprising conference realignment news, after the jump.
Late Saturday, the second conference title of 2010 got wrapped up, as Northwest Oklahoma State snagged the CSFL crown. The top 10 remains unchanged, but there was a lot of movement at the bottom of the rankings.
The top 14 spots in the poll remained the same, and that’s only because a team which won inexplicably dropped two spots. Only four teams in the top 25 lost, three to higher-ranked teams and the fourth to the team which replaced them in this week’s poll. The first conference title of the 2010 season has finally been decided, as DePauw has clinched the SCAC.
North Alabama loses their second in a row, the South Atlantic race becomes a traffic jam, and two top-six teams stumble.
With the exception of the FCS recap, which I had done before a bunch of real-life stuff went all pear-shaped this week, the remainder of the recaps are going to be sort of lacking on the “recap” end, although my discussion of the relevance of the upcoming weekend’s games is intact. Sorry about that.
It was a fairly uneventful weekend in the rankings, as only two top-25 teams lost to lower or unranked teams. A top-five showdown ends on a wide left, a team wins despite not gaining a single passing yard, an entire conference schedule is decided by a total of 12 points, and lots of other fun stuff follows the jump.
Two teams combine for 128 points, another team scores 90, and someone passes for over 600 yards — and loses. All this and more after the jump.
A top-10 team goes down, and another player goes down with a spinal injury. All the details after the jump.
An athlete is killed by police, after which the rest of this news is secondary. Two top-five upsets, one of which involved a baseball score, heartbreak induced by three placekicking failures (the first of which was with four seconds left on the clock), a bunch of realignment news I forgot to tell you about last week, a major format change and more after the jump.
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The front end of the FCS pack remained unchanged last week, but that’s not going to be the case when next week’s poll comes out: we have a titanic battle of top-5 teams coming our way. That story, plus two major upsets, the end of a streak, a game featuring 32 points in the final 4:15, and a coach looking for a new job… after the jump.
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