“Spin Doctor” Chuck Foreman Remains One of Football’s Greats
Despite the fact he has no formal medical training, Chuck Foreman will forever be known as a doctor to a legion of National Football League fans. Spin doctor, to be more precise.
Group of Five 2021-22 Bowl First Weekend Recap & Highlights
The first weekend is in the books for the Group of Five teams. Eight bowls were played Dec. 17th and 18th–all involving at least one G5 team in those games. The big story of the weekend was Western Kentucky’s QB Bailey Zappe breaking former LSU QB Joe Burrow’s record with 61st TD pass of season in WKU’s 59-38 win over Appalachian State in the Boca Raton Bowl. Zappe also broke the pass yardage record with over 5,800 yards passing.
CSJ 2021 Tailgreeter Cure Bowl Preview: Coastal Carolina vs. Northern Illinois
This Cure Bowl is another great match-up just like the game was a year ago. Coastal Carolina makes a return visit after losing the game last year versus Liberty in overtime. Northern Illinois makes its first appearance in this bowl game and the first from any MAC school in this bowl game.
CSJ 2021 Bahamas Bowl Preview: Toledo vs. Middle Tennessee
The first college bowl game of the holiday season gets under way away from the United States. The lone bowl game to be played outside of the USA is this Bahamas Bowl. This game pits Toledo out of the Mid-American Conference (MAC) versus Middle Tennessee, out of Conference USA in the seventh game on the island nation (the 2020 Bahamas Bowl was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
CSJ 2021 Army vs. Navy Game Preview
Army and Navy will play for the 122nd time this Saturday in East Rutherford, N.J. as the end of the college football regular season in this 2021 season that has come back to a bit of normalcy amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
2021-22 College Bowl Games for Group of Five Schools
A total of 42 bowl games, including the College Football Playoff semi-finals and championship, are scheduled to take place beginning Dec. 17 with the Bahamas Bowl and ending Jan. 10 with the College Football Playoff National Championship in Indianapolis. Of the 42 bowls, 23 of the bowls will include at least one team from the.
College Sports Journal Sagarin FBS G5 Top 25 – Dec. 4
Here are the Top 25 FBS Group of Five (G5) rankings based on the Sagarin rankings after the conference championship games, Dec. 4th, 2021. This will be the final rankings until all the bowls are played. A final rankings will be submitted after the National Championship game in January. Cincinnati remains at the top spot.
2021 FBS Group of Five Championship Games Highlights and Recaps
A 2021 season like no other has taken place where finally a Group of Five team will undoubtedly be playing in the College Football Playoff. Cincinnati won the American Athletic Conference title over Houston to finish (thanks to Alabama also winning the SEC over Georgia) as the only undefeated team in all of FBS. The.
CSJ 2021 American Athletic Conference Championship Game Preview — Houston at Cincinnati
HOUSTON AT CINCINNATIWHEN: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 4:00 PM ESTWHERE: NIPPERT STADIUM, CINCINNATI, OHIOTV/STREAMING: ABC / WATCHESPN To put it simply, this is the type of championship game that American Athletic Conference Commissioner Mike Aresco was thinking when he made the claim that the AAC is the Power Six conference. While this game has had UCF and Cincinnati as undefeated.
CSJ 2021 Mountain West Conference Championship Game Preview — Utah State at San Diego State
UTAH STATE AT SAN DIEGO STATEWHEN: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 3:00 PM ESTWHERE: DIGNITY HEALTH SPORTS PARK, CARSON, CALIF.TV/STREAMING: FOX / FOX SPORTS LIVE The Mountain West title game participants were not known until the last weekend of play. San Diego State needed a win over Boise State, while Utah State needed SDSU to beat Boise State and also to.
CSJ 2021 Mid-American Conference Championship Game Preview — Kent State vs. Northern Illinois
KENT STATE vs. NORTHERN ILLINOISWHEN: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 12:00 PM ESTWHERE: FORD FIELD, DETROIT, MICH.TV/STREAMING: ESPN / WATCHESPN The Kent State Golden Flashes and Northern Illinois Huskies will meet in the MAC Championship. This is a rematch from the November 3rd meeting, which Kent State won in a wild affair at home, 52-47. Now the two will face off.
CSJ 2021 Conference USA Championship Game Preview — Western Kentucky at UTSA
WESTERN KENTUCKY AT UTSAWHEN: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 7:00 PM ESTWHERE: ALAMODOME, SAN ANTONIO, TEX.TV/STREAMING: CBS SPORTS NETWORK / CBS SPORTS APP The Conference USA championship this year will take place in a location it has never been–San Antonio, Texas. The home standing UTSA Roadrunners, who won the C-USA West Division will host the East Division champions of Western Kentucky..
College Sports Journal Sagarin FBS G5 Top 25 – Nov. 27
Here are the Top 25 FBS Group of Five (G5) rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Nov. 27th, 2021. CSJ will show weekly rankings from the Sagarin rankings throughout the season and will have a final ranking after the national championship game in January. Cincinnati remains at the top spot after.
Highlights: CSJ FBS Group of Five Top Five Games and Recap of Week 13
The regular season has come to an end. And with the end there is now just one undefeated team left in the Group of Five. And that one team is a big one in Cincinnati, who with a win in its conference title game should be going into the College Football Playoff. The Bearcats started.
College Sports Journal Sagarin FBS G5 Top 25 – Nov. 20
Here are the Top 25 FBS Group of Five (G5) rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Nov. 20th, 2021. CSJ will show weekly rankings from the Sagarin rankings throughout the season and will have a final ranking after the national championship game in January. Cincinnati remains at the top spot after.
Highlights: CSJ FBS Group of Five Top Five Games and Recap of Week 12
There are still two. That is two undefeated G5 teams as we now enter the last weekend of the regular season. This week, Cincinnati had SMU, who earlier in the season looked like the best chance of any AAC team to knockoff the Bearcats. But Cincinnati was dominate in their last regular season home game. .
College Sports Journal Sagarin FBS G5 Top 25 – Nov. 13
Here are the Top 25 FBS Group of Five (G5) rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Nov. 13th, 2021. CSJ will show weekly rankings from the Sagarin rankings throughout the season and will have a final ranking after the national championship game in January. Cincinnati remains at the top spot after.
Highlights: CSJ FBS Group of Five Top Five Games and Recap of Week 11
Can we get some more love for UTSA? The Roadrunners are now just one of three FBS teams with an unblemished record. UTSA joins Cincinnati and Georgia as the lone undefeated teams. The Roadrunners forced three turnovers in the fourth quarter to help UTSA outlast Southern Miss 27-17 in Conference USA play. UTSA used the.
College Sports Journal Sagarin FBS G5 Top 25 – Nov. 7
Here are the Top 25 FBS Group of Five (G5) rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Nov. 7th, 2021. CSJ will show weekly rankings from the Sagarin rankings throughout the season and will have a final ranking after the national championship game in January. Cincinnati remains at the top spot after.
Highlights: CSJ FBS Group of Five Top Five Games and Recap of Week 11
First off, the College Football Playoff rankings were out last Tuesday for the first rankings of the season. For those of us that follow the Group of Five, it had to be somewhat disheartening to see one of the best G5 teams in the CFP era ranked at #6 to start the rankings. But this.
College Sports Journal Sagarin FBS G5 Top 25 – Oct. 30
Here are the Top 25 FBS Group of Five (G5) rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Oct. 30th, 2021. CSJ will show weekly rankings from the Sagarin rankings throughout the season and will have a final ranking after the national championship game in January. Cincinnati remains at the top spot after.
Highlights: CSJ FBS Group of Five Top Five Games and Recap of Week 10
And there were two left. That is that there are only two undefeated teams left in the Group of Five after this week. The week entered with four undefeated teams in the G5 but two went down this weekend. SMU played at Houston and the Mustangs tied the game at 37-37 with 30 seconds to.
College Sports Journal Sagarin FBS G5 Top 25 – Oct. 23
Here are the Top 25 FBS Group of Five (G5) rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Oct. 23rd, 2021. CSJ will show weekly rankings from the Sagarin rankings throughout the season and will have a final ranking after the national championship game in January. Cincinnati remains at the top spot after.
Highlights: CSJ FBS Group of Five Top Five Games and Recap of Week 9
Coming into Week 8 of the season, the Group of Five had five teams still undefeated. That number changed to four this week in the first game of the week this past Wednesday. Coastal Carolina lost in the regular season for the first time since 2019 when the Chanticleers lost at Appalachian State this past.
College Sports Journal Sagarin FBS G5 Top 25 – Oct. 16
Here are the Top 25 FBS Group of Five (G5) rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Oct. 16th, 2021. CSJ will show weekly rankings from the Sagarin rankings throughout the season and will have a final ranking after the national championship game in January. Cincinnati remains at the top spot after.
Highlights: CSJ FBS Group of Five Top Five Games and Recap of Week 7
Cincinnati continues to roll and likely will be the #2 ranked team in all of the FBS when the polls are release this week. The Bearcats played what most thought would be the toughest AAC conference game at the beginning of the season against UCF this week. Over the past couple of years, this game.
College Sports Journal Sagarin FBS G5 Top 25 – Oct. 9
Here are the Top 25 FBS Group of Five (G5) rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Oct. 9th, 2021. CSJ will show weekly rankings from the Sagarin rankings throughout the season and will have a final ranking after the national championship game in January. Cincinnati remains at the top spot after.
Highlights: CSJ FBS Group of Five Top Five Games and Recap of Week 6
As we inch closer to the midway point of the 2021 season, some things are starting to get clearer, while others are very murky. What we know so far is that Cincinnati is very good. The Bearcats followed last week’s huge road win at Notre Dame with an easy AAC opening win Friday over Temple.
College Sports Journal Sagarin FBS G5 Top 25 – Oct. 2
Here are the Top 25 FBS Group of Five (G5) rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Oct. 2nd, 2021. CSJ will show weekly rankings from the Sagarin rankings throughout the season and will have a final ranking after the national championship game in January. Cincinnati remains at the top spot after.
Highlights: CSJ FBS Group of Five Top Five Games and Recap of Week 5
The biggest game possibly not just including Group of Five squads but all of FBS college football was the Top 10 ranking clash between Cincinnati and Notre Dame at historic Notre Dame Stadium. The soon-to-be Power Five squad Bearcats (joining the Big 12 in 2024 or 2025), dominated the first half of the game and.
College Sports Journal Sagarin FBS G5 Top 25 – Sept. 26
Here are the Top 25 FBS Group of Five (G5) rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Sept. 26th, 2021. CSJ will show weekly rankings from the Sagarin rankings throughout the season and will have a final ranking after the national championship game in January. Cincinnati remains at the top spot after.
Highlights: CSJ FBS Group of Five Top Five Games and Recap of Week 4
The biggest news this week had to be the Power Five upset by Bowling Green over Minnesota. The Falcons came into the week at 1-2 with the lone win over FCS Murray State coming into this contest against the Big Ten’s Gophers. BGSU lost its two other contests to the SEC’s Tennessee and to the.
Highlights: CSJ FBS Group of Five Top Five Games and Recap of Week 2
The biggest news this week was last Friday in the Group of Five will definitely be losing four of its strongest programs to the Big 12 Conference. The American Athletic Conference’s Cincinnati, Houston, and UCF, along with independent BYU, will be the four new members of the Power Five Conference. The Big 12 unanimously voted.
College Sports Journal Sagarin FBS G5 Top 25 – Sept. 11
Here are the Top 25 FBS Group of Five (G5) rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Sept. 11th, 2021. CSJ will show weekly rankings from the Sagarin rankings throughout the season and will have a final ranking after the national championship game in January. Cincinnati remains at the top spot following.
College Sports Journal Sagarin FBS G5 Top 25 – Sept. 6
Here are the Top 25 FBS Group of Five (G5) rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Sept. 6th, 2021. CSJ will show weekly rankings from the Sagarin rankings throughout the season and will have a final ranking after the national championship game in January. Cincinnati remains at the top spot following.
GAME PREVIEW: Louisiana at Texas
The Ragin’ Cajuns are not new to facing a a Big 12 school to start their season.
2021 Division I Conference Preview: Sun Belt Conference
The Sun Belt Conference was once thought to be the last of the 10 FBS conferences in rankings but that is changing over the past couple of seasons.
GAME PREVIEW: Boise State at UCF
Two first year head coaches clash in this Group of Five heavyweight battle.
FCS ROUNDTABLE: What’s FCS’ Best Shot at an FBS Upset?
Three games involving FCS teams were contested without a hitch and yielded some great action as well. We got together a roundtable to take a look back at Week 0 and a look ahead at Week 1.
2021 Division I Conference Football Preview: American Athletic Conference
Through an uncertain season of 2020, Cincinnati finally got to the top not only of the American Athletic Conference but was also the top Group of Five school and played in the Peach Bowl versus SEC power Georgia.
College Sports Journal Sagarin FBS G5 Top 25 – Aug. 28
Here are the Top 25 FBS Group of Five (G5) rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Aug. 28th, 2021. CSJ will show weekly rankings from the Sagarin rankings throughout the season and will have a final ranking after the national championship game in January. Cincinnati remains at the top spot following.
2021 Division I Conference Football Preview: Conference USA
Conference USA embarks on its 27th season in 2021.
2021 Division I Group of Five Independents Preview
The G5 Independents last year made the most of the COVID-19 season with breakout performances namely from BYU and Liberty.
2021 Division I Conference Preview: Mountain West Conference
The 2021 season should provide plenty of intrigue in the Mountain West Conference.
GAME PREVIEW: Hawai’i At UCLA
UCLA takes on Hawai’i in one of seven games Saturday involving FBS or FCS teams. For the Bruins, it makes the earliest season opener in the history of the Bruin program.
GAME PREVIEW: UTEP at New Mexico State
TV/STREAMING: BALLY SPORTS AZ/KVIA-ABC 7 (EL PASO)/FLOSPORTS The last game of Week 0 is one with the longest rivalries in the southwest. UTEP travels to New Mexico State in the Battle of I-10. These two schools first started playing each other in 1914 and have had a few seasons missed over the years including the.
GAME PREVIEW: Connecticut at Fresno State
This game will mark the return of fans to Bulldog Stadium as the state of California would not allow any attendence in games last fall due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
College Sports Journal Sagarin FBS G5 Top 25–Preseason 2021
Below are the Top 25 Group of Five (G5) preseason rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the 2021 season. CSJ will show weekly rankings from the Sagarin rankings throughout the season and will have a final ranking after the national championship game in January. Cincinnati is rated at the top spot in the preseason.
ROUNDTABLE: How Does Texas and Oklahoma Exiting Big XII Affect G5 and FCS?
Today we had an emergency convo to figure out what could end up happening with the Big XII, the Group of Five, and the upper echelons of the FCS. The one thing everyone seemed to agree on is that change will be happening, and the Group of 5 and FCS won’t look the same as it does now once it’s done.
Andre Tippett: From Standing Up For Himself To The College Football Hall of Fame
Tippett, a former standout at the University of Iowa, will be enshrined into the College Football Hall of Fame later this year in Atlanta.
